The Gender Pay Gap In Medicine
Dr. Yvonne Sin talks about the pay gap for women in medicine.
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The view from here: A family doctor’s perspective of a population under lockdown
Dr. Sonia Malhotra provides a family doctor’s perspective of a population under lockdown.
Read more »Black Physicians of British Columbia
Dr. Rahel Zewude introduces Black Physicians of British Columbia.
Read more »More Than “Just a Family Doctor”
Dr. Christine Hanna speaks about being called “just a family doctor”.
Read more »Doctors say they’ll continue to speak out despite paying a price
January 29, 2021 CBC Radio’s White Coat Black Art podcast takes listeners through the swinging doors of hospitals and doctors’ offices, behind the curtain where the gurney lies. News articles do not necessarily represent the views of BC Family Doctors. We share news written by or about family physicians to keep our members up to …
Read more »Family doctors are key to Canada’s vaccine rollout. We must include them in this vital process
Dr. Vincent Lam writes about how Family doctors must be included in Canada’s vaccine roll out in this article on The Globe and Mail.
Read more »Dr Walter Reynolds
No words that I write here will give Walter back to his family. Instead of feeling powerless though, I will commit to action in his memory.
Read more »A Personal Experience of Fear and Grief
Learning, for Life
Our learning as family doctors, and as humans, is never done. As specialists in primary care, we know family doctors need better tools to support learning and reflection. We need applications that will help us deliver quality care and improve outcomes.
Read more »The Ruby of Routine
How suddenly things change! And just like that, usual becomes the new dream.
Read more »COVID-19: My Enemy, My Salvation.
But now I walk with COVID-19. She is mentor, I am mentee.
Read more »Goals of Care Discussions in the Age of COVID-19
Goals of care discussions have always been important. In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, they are essential.
Read more »Because we care
Family physicians are the bedrock of the health care system. When a person reaches out for health care, nervous that something might be wrong, we are the first person they see, and we are the person who walks side by side with them through that problem, and the next, and the next. So, it was …
Read more »Canaries: We See You
I recently read Glennon Doyle’s, Love Warrior. In it she writes: “The canary’s body was built to be sensitive to toxins, so the canary became their lifeguard. When the toxin levels rose too high, the canary stopped singing, and this silence was the miners’ signal …. I tell Mary Margaret that I don’t think we’re …
Read more »A Soft Place for Hard Conversations
Our ability to join together, to act as a collective, is at the heart of who we are as people. As family doctors, we understand that connection matters. Belonging matters. We live in a world where we have geographically and politically sorted ourselves into like-minded groups, where dissent is silenced and facts are consumed …
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