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.
11/30/2023 After managing to avoid COVID-19 for 1,313 days, I finally saw those two little red lines on a test. Looking back at the journey we’ve been on with the pandemic, I think you might be surprised how much you’ve already forgotten.
9/28/2023 Dr. Howard Goldstein challenged doctors in his Virtual Retirement Lounge group to come up with keynote addresses to the class of 2023.
8/22/2023 What if doctors were allowed tipping terminals in their offices? A chalkboard menu of available goods and services could be wall-mounted in the waiting room, prices listed in bold cursive and brilliant colour, modified with every PSA negotiation.
7/10/2023 My doctor began by stating the purpose of the call—to review my MRI report. I advised that I'd already read the report in MyChart and had a copy in front of me for our collective review. “That shouldn’t happen,” he said. I couldn’t have agreed more.
5/31/2023 Of cottages, pancreatic cancer and a strange little "phone booth" in the Ontario wilderness.
5/28/2023 My barber of more than 40 years asked me whether I missed being a doctor. After a few years in retirement, only now do I feel the loss of what medical practice has meant to me for so long.
3/7/2023 Three docs, three bagels, three stories of going from doctor to patient in one fell swoop.
2/16/2023 I spoke with my cousin, now 85, about his decades as a pharmaceutical sales rep—known in his day as a 'detail man'—and about how the industry is barely recognizable today.
1/26/2023 The pandemic left a major gap in the formative education of our medical students, relegating them to a virtual bedside. The core tenets of the classic physical exam: percussion, palpation, auscultation and even inspection were all casualties of virtual medicine.
12/14/2022 Leaving the ice rink a CityTV reporter asked to interview my children. My daughter boldly stepped forward, looking directly into the camera lens said: “I want to wish Merry Christmas to my mummy who’s working in the emergency department tonight.” Not bad for a three-year-old who'd just celebrated Chanukah.
11/23/2022 The treasury of knowledge held by doctors who are no longer technically practicing is going terribly overlooked. And in our current crisis, we're not a resource the healthcare system can afford not to use.
