2/18/2025 Dr. Howard Goldstein remembers a patient—and neighbour—in a story that puts the ‘family’ front and centre in family medicine.
1/10/2025 Hallway healthcare is a sad reality—one we must not accept.
12/18/2024 A precocious and spirited child and a whimsical mispronunciation becomes a cherished anecdote.
11/13/2024 Dr. Howard Goldstein's daughter suffered a spinal emergency, dragging her and the family through the hell that is hallway medicine in Ontario today.
10/2/2024 One of the obstacles to retiring from medical practice is the perception that it immediately renders you ‘old.’
8/14/2024 Clinical guidelines feel awfully different when you're the patient being subjected to them, rather than the MD using them.
7/26/2024 Dr. Howard Goldstein reflects on the 10 years he's been writing for the Medical Post—and the continued importance of communication skills in the medical profession.
6/3/2024 Dr. Howard Goldstein reflects on how certain memories of violence in his formative years in University mirror the events of today.
4/11/2024 Retirement is a stranger, an unknown until reality allows you to define it in your own terms. It is not a continuum of the professional persona. For some it is a paradise found, for others, an identity lost.
2/12/2024 I commend the King for his transparency about his health—but he could do even more.
1/15/2024 Dr. Howard Goldstein reflects on how strange it is to refer to yourself as a doctor in the past tense upon retirement.
12/17/2023 Merriam-Webster's 2023 Word of the Year is "authentic.” Here Dr. Howard Goldstein offers up suggestions for the medical word of the year.
