Tag: CMAJ

• A Plague on All Your Houses

      I still remember a seminar I went to years ago in university. It was part of a nebulous course on ‘Health’ that some of us took as a soft route on the way to a bachelor’s degree. It was reputed to consist of essays and a true or false final examination. Also, because […]

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  August 8, 2018

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  Canadian Medical Association Journal, CMAJ, Daniel J. Dutton, disease, health, health care, health costs, Poverty, social services, Spending on health care, tautology, Tuberculosis

• Zoobstetricoses

    Ever since I was a little knicker I had a dog, or a cat, or both. It was part of growing up –playing with the dog in the park, avoiding the cat’s claws as it grabbed for the piece of wool dangling temptingly in front of it. And then there were the times sitting […]

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  June 8, 2016

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  Canadian Medical Association Journal, cat scratch disease, cats, CDC, CMAJ, cryptosporidiosis, dogs, mercury contamination, multi-drug resistant bacteria, pregnancy risks, toxoplasmosis, zoonoses

• Vehicular Obstetrics

  Here I am in New Zealand, land of narrow roads, one lane bridges, and at least for us North Americans, the necessity of switching our cultural allegiance from the right to the left hand side of the road. Personally, my greatest struggle is remembering to get into the car through the correct door. Everything seems […]

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  February 25, 2015

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  Canadian Medical Association Journal, Canadian study, car accidents in pregnancy, CMAJ, Driving in Pregnancy, motor vehicle crash, New Zealand, obstetrical advice, pregnancy, pregnancy risks, second trimester, second trimester of pregnancy