What are We Really Telling Our Medical Students?
The story of the hidden curriculum
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The dark side of Canada’s shift to corporate-driven health care
Doctors talk about corporations taking advantage of the shift to virtual care.
Read more »Sikh Values Inspire Doctor’s Approach to Patient Care
Dr. Birinder Narang talks about his Sikh values and how they inspire him to approach patient care.
Read more »The Gender Pay Gap In Medicine
Dr. Yvonne Sin talks about the pay gap for women in medicine.
Read more »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 »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
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 …
Read more »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 »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 …
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