Five survival tips for a career in family medicine
I participated in one of the best workshops I have ever done in my many years of teaching. My colleague Dr. Jenny Wu asked three veteran family docs to give tips on how to survive and flourish during a long family medicine career.
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6/20/2025
The red shoes
Sometimes, it helps for a doctor's foot ware to already be the colour of blood.
6/9/2025
Scatterbrained
What is part-time for a family doctor these days? My three half days in the clinic seeing patients and doing clinical supervision, becomes almost three full days when you add in the paperwork, chasing up consultants and results, trying to make sure that my vulnerable patients don't fall through the cracks.
5/2/2025
The good old hockey game—in the emergency department
A med student in 1979, I wandered down to the ER of Montreal Children's. It was downright spooky. The cubicles were empty. The waiting room was silent. The doctors and nurses were gathered at the nursing station watching a small portable TV.
