Best of Physicians Blogs

Working in the small-town atmosphere of the Jewish community in Montreal.

Many organizations and governments are invested in the idea of physicians as commodi-ties, as interchangeable parts of a plug-and-play medical machine.

What I’ve come to realize is that anyone or anything can write the stories, especially AI. But not everyone can live the stories, and it is in the living that metrics and algorithms and data banks fail the test.

The intersection of retirement and ageing can be dangerous to your health. They are often coincidental, conjoined phases of life.

The death of a friend and staple of the Calgary music scene, Tim Williams, has Dr. Ted Jablonski reevaluating his opinion on the worth of seemingly mindless conversation.

A personal reflection on physician happiness in Canada.

Dr. Hector Baillie recounts a full-circle moment while meeting a familiar patient in the ER, 25 years later.

It was Cassie—our two-year-old chocolate Lab—who taught me how to live long and live well.

Mistakes are inevitable when practicing medicine, but Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes writes that physicians should learn to give themselves more grace, as the profession is often held to impossible standards.

My mom is learning to walk again, with a walker. And I'm grieving.

Dr. John Crosby outlines his predictions in medicine for 2026, from two-tiered healthcare to ER wait times.

I remember driving into Kitchener from Cambridge on the fourth night, wishing I was a dermatologist.

Perimenopause can be tricky, with some symptoms more easily eased than others. But there is plenty of help to offer our patients.

When patients have help with navigating the health system, it can be hugely beneficial. But that extra help isn’t always available, so here’s my advice to patients so they can help themselves.

A good physician friend of mine said he was headed to Dallas to take the American College of Lifestyle Medicine exam—and it piqued my curiosity.

Sex differences in pain prevalence, perception and response to treatment are among the most consistent findings in pain epidemiology and experimental pain research.

Moving from the precision of medicine to the stillness of a sabbatical, Dr. Mills explores what happens when we stop measuring our worth by what we complete.

On death, repetition and what physicians carry after the moment has passed.