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During these times of uncertainty, fear and anxiety over a virus that has affected over a million people around the world, many feel we are at war with an invisible enemy.  It reminds me of a different war, however. When I was a little girl, I remember having to line up with my mom to …

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.

How suddenly things change!  And just like that, usual becomes the new dream. 

But now I walk with COVID-19. She is mentor, I am mentee.

Goals of care discussions have always been important. In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, they are essential.

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 …

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 …

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 …