“Hey Doc, I hope you don’t mind that I looked you up?”“Bob, are you stalking me again?”“No, I checked you out online at that Rate-Your-MD thingy.”In case you have been living without Internet access... Read More

The letter by Yoshida and colleagues [BCMJ 2017;59:348] reports on two patients with hepatotoxicity from herbal medicine (Chinese and Indian) requiring liver transplant and recommends regulation of... Read More

Being new isn’t easy. I don’t mean young and new, fresh out of training. That is a time when we are more accustomed to change, to seeing new faces, and learning new processes. But being a lot less... Read More

My mother loved Christmas. She never met a Christmas decoration she didn’t like, and by early December every surface in our house was covered with Christmas decor: crèches, Santas, reindeer,... Read More

The rate of cancer in the Canadian population is increasing, in part an unintended consequence of medical advances helping people live longer. The Canadian Cancer Society tells us “an estimated 206 ... Read More