Dr. Bolu Ogunyemi, a dermatologist in St. John’s, N.L., says he is also the first president to graduate from Memorial University’s medical school in St. John’s and he brings unique experience as a doctor in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Dr. J.P. Sutherland dives into the complex question of whether disclosing personal information about yourself can ever be an effective part of treating a patient.
As physicians, we go to work each day with the intent to provide patient care and help others. Frankly, some days are better than others. But we don’t expect to get injured at work and urgently become patient ourselves.
In the U.S., some hospitals require cognitive assessments for clinicians above a certain age to renew their privileges. The figures are intriguing, but the model raises questions of validity and fairness. In Quebec, the Collège des médecins du Québec is relying on other mechanisms.
James Shirley’s poem, ‘Death the Leveller,’ asserts that earthly power, wealth and glory are temporary, while death is the inevitable fate that reduces everyone to the same level in the dust.
I honestly never want to do clinical medicine again. If I never have to read a new guideline it will be too soon, but I do miss the rush medicine used to give me.
