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Waiting for test results: what will the ‘CT leaves’ show?
Peggy Cumming, is a wife, mother, grandmother of 6, sister, niece, cousin and friend, as well as a teacher - retired after 34 years in the classroom - and an athlete. She is now post-surgery and...
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Girl in the dark
Patricia Lightfoot is Associate Director, Online Physician Learning, at the new CMA subsidiary "8872147 Canada Inc." I read Girl in the Dark a few months after escaping from a darkened room, where I...
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The agony and the ecstasy: a review of Inside Out
Sarah Currie is a medical copy editor at CMAJ I was 16 years old when Sadness and Joy first went AWOL in my brain for a protracted period. I was an angry, scared, self-loathing teenager. Typical,...
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Radon-induced lung cancer can be prevented
Janet Whitehead works and lives in Vancouver, BC. She is the mother of 3 children and has a granddaughter. Five years ago I was diagnosed with lung cancer. I had most of my left lung and lymph nodes...
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A New Equilibrium: A physician’s journey beyond radical prostate surgery –...
Graeme Rocker is a professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax Editor’s note: Part I of this series appeared as a Humanities article in CMAJ; parts II , III and IV appeared on CMAJ Blogs. At six...
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My Best Life
Peggy Cumming, is a wife, mother, grandmother of 6, sister, niece, cousin and friend, as well as a teacher - retired after 34 years in the classroom - and an athlete. This is her last blog, a year on...
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A resource to inform patients and the public about clinical trials
Dawn Richards provides project management consultant services to the Canadian organization Network of Networks (N2). She also works as a patient consultant for other organizations. Have you ever...
View ArticleCurt’s Story: An experience with Physician Assisted Dying
This story is about my family’s experience with PAD (Physician Assisted Dying). Our hope is that it will be of some help to others following, or contemplating following, the same path. In the fall of...
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New territory: failing to plan for the unthinkable
Sarah Currie lives in Ottawa, Ontario I changed jobs this week. On Monday, my first day, when I should have been primarily concerned with learning the office microwave-cleaning rota and orienting...
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Sicker than I’d ever been before: a patient’s experience of sepsis
Ray Schachter is a lawyer in Vancouver. He is on the Executive Committee of the Global Sepsis Alliance and Canadian Sepsis Foundation In March 1996, I was a healthy, fit 50-year-old man enjoying life...
View ArticleHome care nurses need more support to meet the needs of complex patients
Marcy White is a writer and special needs advocate. In just one year, my son, Jacob, was put on Bi-Pap in the PICU on four separate occasions. Only a respiratory therapist was allowed to put the...
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Brianna Cheng is a MSc Epidemiology student in the Class of 2020 at McGill University. is it possible to mourn the living? time’s grasp on youth seems ever loose while draining those already...
View ArticleThe power of patient and caregiver partnership
Maggie Keresteci is a caregiver to her sibling who lives with a life altering disease and is committed to advocating for solutions that will improve the lives of Canadian patients and their caregivers....
View ArticleGirl in the dark
Patricia Lightfoot is Associate Director, Online Physician Learning, at the new CMA subsidiary “8872147 Canada Inc.” I read Girl in the Dark a few months after escaping from a darkened room, where I...
View ArticleThe agony and the ecstasy: a review of Inside Out
Sarah Currie is a medical copy editor at CMAJ I was 16 years old when Sadness and Joy first went AWOL in my brain for a protracted period. I was an angry, scared, self-loathing teenager. Typical,...
View ArticleNot every cough is COVID-19
As I described Thomas’ symptoms to my friend over-the-phone, she interrupted me to ask, “Is that him that I can hear breathing?”
View ArticleDéjà vu in the time of COVID-19
There will be a return to regular life, although it may not look the same.
View ArticleA patient’s experience of COVID-19
The last breath a person takes before death is an exhalation, to expire. I was trying so hard. I was so tired of trying. I said to myself, “Could I just let go?” Just let the exhalation come and it...
View ArticleDystonia: one patient’s surprising adventure to help find answers to doctors’...
How could I help - me with no medical training? Well, I excel at making lists. I know how to ask questions.
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