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George Szasz, CM, MD
A couple of weeks ago Spookie the robotic cat arrived at our house. Soft of fur, she is a lovely black-and-white cat doll, about 60 cm long and 1.3 kg in weight. Of course, there is a plastic box inside with four... Read More
Today, 1 May, I am going to join many of my colleagues to thank and celebrate our medical teachers, our colleagues, and our patients too, on National Physicians’ Day in Canada. Ever since I can remember, I... Read More
In the past few weeks I have been limping with a painful left hip—secondary to a bit of age-related osteoarthritis. Oh, to be young again! Or at least rejuvenated! Those thoughts crossed my mind twice in the past few... Read More
A recent news release from the Rochester Institute of Technology describes a revolutionary product to monitor patients with congestive heart failure in the comfort of their home. Researchers developed toilet seat–based... Read More
DRR’s March editorial touched me greatly [BCMJ 2019;61:61]. It was about his dementia-touched father’s journey and walking with him on that journey “with grace, love, and laughter.” Walking with my wife, who is being... Read More
Dr Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915) It is my wish to disembark from a time machine in Tubingen, Germany, on 3 November 1906 and attend the conference where Dr Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915... Read More
Recently I came upon a complex article about the alarmingly low sperm counts and sperm concentrations of some of the 43 000 men measured between 1971 and 2013.[1] Using various statistical methods, the data were... Read More
Reading about the Cleveland Clinic’s predictions of medical innovations for 2019 got me thinking about the medical ideas and practices from the past 100 years that did not turn out well. One idea that did not... Read More
Humor is the tendency of experiences to provoke laughter, or at least some amusement. People of all ages and cultures respond to humor of one kind or another. The word comes from the Latin for “body fluid” and its... Read More
I met her 66 years ago. I was in my fourth year of medicine and lived in the old North Vancouver hospital with two classmates. We wrote patients’ histories for next day’s surgeries—sometimes five or six tonsillectomies... Read More