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  • 10/8/2025

    Medical marriages

    Doctors are people and people get tired, crabby, angry, hungry and frustrated just like all animals and humans. When you put that together with kids, a mortgage, in-laws, different sex drives, money quarrels and child rearing approaches, I can’t believe the divorce rate is only 50% for all couples.
  • 9/2/2025

    Ketamine

    Last November, I toured the offices of a private company that offers psychotherapy with the use of Ketamine. Here’s what I learned.
  • 8/13/2025

    A rapid fire chat about why LTC docs are so tired

    I recently spoke with Dr. Ben Robert, an Ottawa medical director of long-term care, who still practices comprehensive care in his family medicine office.
  • 7/21/2025

    We see young doctors struggling, so we wrote a book to help

    Together, Dr. Duncan Rozario and I have some advice about reframing the burnout discussion in the medical profession, particularly among surgeons.
  • 6/13/2025

    Burnout in the birthing unit

    Dr. John Crosby spoke with another regular contributor, Dr. Ginevra Mills, to get a picture of what is exhausting the country’s birthing specialists.
  • 5/6/2025

    We've heard of Uber Kitten—what about Uber Baby for insomnia?

    After 50 years as a family doctor, Dr. John Crosby has a humorous take on the one cure for insomnia that never fails—taking care of a baby.
  • 2/11/2025

    A Sarnia family doctor with 4,500 patients

    One Ontario physician, with well above the average patient roster, discusses how he's well underway with leveraging his office's team to provide as much care as they can.
  • 1/10/2025

    Are you a mentor or tormentor?

    Dr. John Crosby outlines his strategies when it comes to mentoring doctors on time management
  • 11/22/2024

    Who has a tougher job: Canadian specialists or family doctors?

    In summary, we both have a tough job and it’s hard to judge who has it worse.
  • 11/12/2024

    Time management for Canadian long-term care physicians

    I decided to round three times a week at each home. It cured my burnout and I loved my job again. I retired after 50 years of loving medicine.
  • 11/7/2024

    How to fire a patient

    In an episode of his video series—the Kindly Country Quack—Dr. John Crosby discusses one of the toughest scenarios doctors can face.
  • 11/1/2024

    VIDEO BLOG: Encouraging seniors to accept help

    In his video series, the Kindly Country Quack, Dr. John Crosby details his best advice for helping seniors in decline who are reluctant to seek help.
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