3/28/2022 Should we be putting the “night cap” to rest?
3/16/2022 I can easily imaging my perfect day overall, but for me personally, what would my perfect clinic day look like?
3/10/2022 I have medical colleagues with Russian passports. They are living and working in Canada for a reason. They are not happy with what is going on in Russia. As a medical director, should I demand that they publicly denounce Putin or they shouldn’t work at our clinic?
3/2/2022 The more I read about the past, the more I’m starting to see a pattern. And as we, yet again, exit some of these restrictions in much of the country, I’m reminded of prohibition’s clamorous rise and fall.
2/17/2022 A large part of my medical practice involves men’s sexual health. There is a small grouping of men who come in with an agenda and are rigid in their expectations of what I should do for them. They are generally obsessive and their concerns are unusually intense and urgent (to them). They can be demanding and threatening.
2/15/2022 “Difficult patients,” present with a wide variety of traits that test us to the core of our professional and personal limits. We know who these patients are. They invariably bring out a sudden sympathetic response when we see them on our day sheet. We know these patients far too well.
2/7/2022 The Olympics are meant to be a time for setting aside our differences, but there's rarely a year where controversy doesn't muddle the waters, no matter where or when they take place.
1/31/2022 It seems difficult to have a conversation with someone who can’t stop honking their horn or screaming with a placard. And here we remain as medical professionals doing the best we possibly can to hold it all together day to day to day.
1/24/2022 The list was harder to come up with than expected. Many “truths” I thought about were relative and easily challenged. Half-truths at best. So here’s my list of the closest thing to medical truth that I could come up with.
1/13/2022 COVID is nothing to joke about, but these are dark times, so here's some of the best dark humour my patients (and a few colleagues) have come up with lately.
12/29/2021 Dr. Ted Jablonski offers his top 10 Canadian event highlights.
12/22/2021 Not to be too much of a Scrooge about it, but accepting gifts from patients can be a tricky business.
