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President's Comment / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC March 2024
... it simply makes us more alone. Yet, in the real world, people cheer when they hear someone has gotten into medical ... his sociology professor, Morrie Schwartz, who had ALS. People would come to commiserate with Schwartz yet would ... Yet I find inspiration at work daily. I find it in the people who come together to look after a patient with ...
Obituaries / BY: Gillian Hodge, MD January/February 2024
... Bella Bella. In those days, evacuation of sick and injured people from remote communities was difficult. Roger had to ... assistance. He gained the trust and friendship of many people along the Central Coast—friendships that endured for ... manner made him many friends among the local Indigenous people. In the mid-1980s, Roger moved to Vancouver, where he ...
Editorials / BY: Michael Schwandt, MD, MPH June 2024
... still. For every road death, there are severalfold more people requiring hospitalization or other health care due to ...
Proust for Physicians March 2024
... science fiction, fantasy, and biographies of interesting people. What is your favorite place? There is no place like ...
President's Comment / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC June 2024
... of former Lego CEO Jørgen Vig Knudstorp: “Many creative people are finding that creativity doesn’t grow in ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC April 2024
... hands. Stating the obvious, I also assumed that other people’s children were in excellent hands with me. So, when ...
Editorials / BY: Terri Aldred, MD April 2024
... disease) form the most common stereotypes about Indigenous people in Canada. When I entered medical school, lecture ... I was well aware of the health disparities Indigenous people faced, and I recognized that bringing awareness was ... factor, and this perpetuates the narrative of Indigenous people being sick, harboring disease, and being at fault for ...
Obituaries / BY: Al Kallas, MD March 2024
... one of the smallest boats in the harbor, with the most people in the cockpit. There were many cruises, including to ...
Interviews / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC January/February 2024
... with in your practice. The feeling I got from a lot of people was that they were at their wits’ end, there was no ... your approach to spreading that optimism to get more people helping you on that journey? I can start at the micro ... ever changed anything in the world is a group of committed people committing to make a difference along a common path. ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC March 2024
... depend on one physician for an entire community of people. At a time when many of us in tertiary care settings ... anesthesiologists are just a few examples of the skilled people essential to a functional operating room. Any one of ... we are rich in resources in Canada, our system is failing people. Dr Karimuddin comes into the role with energy and ...