Best of Physicians Blogs

After my workout, having been lovingly tortured by my trainer, I was in the gift shop trying to buy my husband some fancy socks and my granddaughter a card for her upcoming Bat Mitzvah. Then I heard a call on the overhead speaker ‘Medical Emergency, Cafeteria!’

They entered her small office, argued for a moment whether it was OK to leave a child’s drawing captioned with ‘I love you Dr. M.’ on the wall. My doctor asked them if they thought that this activity was a productive way to use taxpayer dollars.

A more recent plane crash at Pearson brought back a flood of memories for Dr. Howard Goldstein, remembering his participation in helping those injured in a crash all way back in 1978.

When I look back today at what life was like for physicians beginning in March of 2020, it is likened to an extended night terror. The initial months were frenetic.

Recent developments in the U.S., particularly new whistleblower policies related to transgender youth care, have raised concern about the possible impact on Canadian healthcare professionals like myself.

Dr. Ted Jablonski wonders: How can a career so deeply built on human interaction feel so incredibly lonely?

Ten is an interesting number. It got me to think, what questions would I like answered about medicine? After a long career dealing with medical quandaries, I thought I’d list 10.

Back in my day, in the U.K., I got a government grant, and my tuition fees were paid. Nowadays the debt load of new grads is hundreds of thousands of dollars depending on province. Let’s look at solutions.

Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes considers Buddhist teachings about working with what you've got—including difficult colleagues.

What predicts intellectual humility? Not gender. Not left vs. right political leanings. Not years of education, which, if anything, might decrease it.

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.

Dr. John Crosby outlines his strategies when it comes to mentoring doctors on time management

The immune system is incredibly complex—as are the reasons why certain cohorts are more likely to develop asthma, allergies and autoimmune disorders.

Yeast infections are a misnomer as they aren’t actually infections—and sometimes, they’re the wrong diagnosis.

Dr. Angela Mailis compares two patients who demonstrate how subjective the experience of pain can be—and what can be done about such differing cases.

New Canadian guidelines on opioid prescribing are out and Dr. Angela Mailis summarizes (and praises) these updates.

A patient is so embarrassed her kids may have lice she forgets about the chief concern she started off with.

The field of medicine is notorious for encouraging working beyond our means, says Dr. Ginevra Mills.