3/18/2026 What I’ve come to realize is that anyone or anything can write the stories, especially AI. But not everyone can live the stories, and it is in the living that metrics and algorithms and data banks fail the test.
1/20/2026 The intersection of retirement and ageing can be dangerous to your health. They are often coincidental, conjoined phases of life.
12/3/2025 With primary care sometimes difficult to access and ER wait times high, the number of patients leaving without treatment has spiked.
10/9/2025 I’m sitting patiently in a confining, V-shaped waiting room that barely accommodates six time-eroded faux-leather chairs. This professional building has a familiar, déjà vu vibe, perhaps because I had done time here in a previous life—25 years in fact.
8/28/2025 My SUV was stolen right out of my driveway on my 50th wedding anniversary. As I listed the vehicle's contents for my insurer, I realized my five-decades old black medical bag would never make another house (or cottage) call with me again.
8/18/2025 Two former medical professionals head in for a clinical consultation and come out . . . pleased as punch?
7/9/2025 Dr. Howard Goldstein just got a letter reminding him that now that he has reached age 80, renewing his driver's license comes with a few extra steps—and it brought him back to a time when he has to evaluate another physician's competence in relation to his age.
6/20/2025 Dr. Howard Goldstein reflects on the endurance of paper ephemera and what an old medical textbook means in a world of tablets, phones, frothing knowledge and limited storage space.
4/25/2025 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.
3/11/2025 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.
2/18/2025 Dr. Howard Goldstein remembers a patient—and neighbour—in a story that puts the ‘family’ front and centre in family medicine.
1/10/2025 Hallway healthcare is a sad reality—one we must not accept.
