Discussions

Can we prevent heart disease and cancer by taking vitamins and minerals?

North Americans spend tens of billions on nutritional supplements each year—so what are they getting out of them?
One internist's recipe for survival during residency

A young female Canadian general internist wrote this for me. As an emergency physician for 20 years, I get to see many specialties and one of the toughest was internal medicine.
A sick doctor shouldn’t wait eight hours in the ER

Dr. Jabir Jassam makes the case for more professional courtesy in certain situations.
Pharmacists: What keeps you going?

In an upcoming feature article, we'll be looking at some of the ways in which pharmacists are finding joy, motivation and reasons for positivity in their pharmacy practice.
When the peer reviewer calls, encore

Two decades after his first practice audit, Dr. George Burden was concerned this time wouldn’t go quite as well.
$150M is not enough: Canada’s proposed Purdue Pharma settlement for opioid damages is paltry and won’t prevent future crises

While the largest settlement of a governmental healthcare cost claim in Canadian history, it's also a paltry amount compared to the approximately US$6 billion Purdue will pay in the United States.
Aspiring aspirations

Thoracentesis proves to be an extremely useful procedure for Dr. Hector Baillie.
POLL: How do you feel about the ‘summer wave’ of COVID-19?

Take our weekly news poll and see what other doctors say.