9/3/2024 Dr. John Crosby spoke with an anonymous doctor about a choice to stop about 300 patients on long-term opioid therapy cold turkey after taking over an existing practice.
7/29/2024 Dr. John Crosby asserts that there is more than enough work for every healthcare professional in Canada and that a little competition never hurt anyone.
6/21/2024 If you brush your teeth twice a year, see your dentist three times a day. Old dad joke by an old dad.
6/3/2024 Dr. John Crosby describes watching his colleagues use an AI scribe tool—and he was more than impressed.
5/15/2024 Paperwork: you know . . . the stuff we do 19 hours a week or 49,450 hours a lifetime!
4/22/2024 A career in one speciality doesn't have to mean boredom or burnout. Dr. John Crosby tells the story of a colleague whose career looked very different from year to year.
2/13/2024 A Canadian doing her final-year of family medicine residency in the U.S., highlights concerns about the increasing dominance of mid-level practitioners in American healthcare.
1/31/2024 Here's my list of reasons—after all, it's a massive problem with far more than one cause to blame.
10/26/2023 I spoke with Dr. Ramsey Hijazi, who is spearheading the (very) new Ontario Union of Family Physicians—which wants to see government funding for FPs rise dramatically.
8/31/2023 Dr. John Crosby makes the case for anti-perfectionism when it comes to medicine, especially in the family physician's office.
8/1/2023 I couldn’t be a banker. I couldn’t balance a cheque book. I was useless with my hands.
I would have been eaten alive as a teacher or lawyer.
