Practice Tips

Other provinces are coming up with loads of ad-ons and extras to make the deal for their doctors sweeter—and Ontario needs to step it up.

Dr. Jabir Jassam realizes a colleague has a different attitude toward work-life balance during a fishing trip.

Dr. Paul Dhillon argues that the CFPC’s decision to extend family medicine training from two to three years should be paused and reassessed.

Vulnerability to drug-induced nutritional deficiencies is greatest in older adults, patients taking multiple medications and those with chronic illness, multiple co-morbidities, or marginal or inadequate nutrition.

Feeling your empathy wane? It’s not your fault. And you can get it back.

If you focus on the trees, you will miss the forest, but if you focus on the forest, you will get all of the trees thrown in. Financial reward comes by focusing on the "forest" – serving a specific target audience with a better product or service than what is currently being offered.

A Medscape online survey completed by 1,063 Canadian doctors last year and released this spring found that 67% of Canadian physicians said they don’t have enough time to maintain their close friendships.

Digital communication can make the doctor-patient relationship more fraught.