From the magazine

Feeling your empathy wane? It’s not your fault. And you can get it back.

A Medscape online survey completed by 1,063 Canadian doctors last year and released this spring found that 67% of Canadian physicians said they don’t have enough time to maintain their close friendships.

Digital communication can make the doctor-patient relationship more fraught.

Expanding scopes of practice for NPs and pharmacists working independently outside of teams is adding to the strain on doctors.

It is almost like the phrase ‘private care’ should be retired in favour of two terms.

A recent network meta-analysis investigated the mid- to long-term metabolic effects of antipsychotics in randomized controlled trials of 13 weeks’ duration or longer in patients with schizophrenia.

Doctors need to fight the inertia that can result from software programs providing a full list of DDIs—some of which aren't clinically significant.

We need to find ways to give other people hope. When our hearts want to fix the system, but our minds are exhausted, we have problems.