Discussions

Doctor as patient: The honeymoon is almost over
Parkinson's feels like getting older on steroids. My tremor and I have reached a mutual agreement that he will not bother me during my piano playing as long as I allow him to go rampant while I am slurping my hot soup.
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Wouldn’t hiking FP pay solve a province’s primary care shortage?

Dr. Joshua Liu argues significantly raising family physicians’ reimbursement would get any province ahead of the others on recruitment and retention so why not?
Happiness and wellbeing are not automatic default states

Today family physician Dr. Adam Stewart offers up this almost haiku-like short blog.
Silly slogans for marketing your specialty

Most specialists have more business than they can handle—but what if you did need to market your practice?
Ontario’s arbitration position a slap in the face for physicians

The ministry’s lowball proposal has demoralized physicians, who worry about its impact on physician retention, argues Dr. Sohail Gandhi.
I’m the last surviving member of my family. It’s a different grief than I’ve ever known

Dr. Brian Goldman finds that losing his sister, who was a friend, rival, confidant and witness to their early family life, is so difficult.
We can—and should—all be pharmacy advocates, every day

If ever there was a time when we need each pharmacist raising their voice in support of the profession, that time is now.
Burnout: is anyone listening?

Doctors are tired of hearing about wellness—we need to do something about it instead.
A mixed bag of supplement studies

Vitamins for memory, probiotics for food allergies, magnesium for heart attack patients?
U.S. has found H5N1 flu virus in milk—here’s why the risk to humans is likely low

To answer questions about the safety of drinking milk contaminated with the H5N1 virus, it is important to understand some basic biology of H5N1 and other related viruses.
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