Importance Few interventions are proven to reduce total health care costs, and addressing
cost-related nonadherence has the potential to do so. Objective To determine the effect of …

Although culture and race are the more recognized forces in medicine’s hidden curriculum,
financial inequity is less discussed. Substantial tuition fees are deterrents for many medical …

Pellegrino defines professionalism as “those qualities and modes of conduct proper to
professions.” 1 In each patient encounter, the physician, as a professional,“professes” both …

Objective: Childhood immunizations represent the most significant source of iatrogenic pain
in otherwise healthy children. Consequently, children make correlations between the doctor’…

Ah... to be a resident again—to see patients and be free to ask “what was this family physician
thinking? Any fool can see....” Alas, I am older and wiser now. Recently I had a patient tell …

The World Medical Association (WMA), the voice of the international community of physicians,
has always firmly opposed euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (E&PAS) and …

Being antiracist comes at a cost. As Dr. Patrick outlined, 1 CMAJ publish ing antiracist
scholarly commentary2 has been met with criticism. Similarly, med ical learners can also face …

When a patient asked me if I eat bats, I ignored it. When I was assaulted and robbed by
perpetrators targeting Asians, I shrugged off the correlation to race. When I got workplace …

Since this is the premiere issue of the McGill Journal of Medicine, I feel that this would be an
appropriate time to provide your readers with a brief history of the rise and early …

Debates Page 1 My colleague states that he believes there is “a quali- fied yes” as to whether
FPs “generally agree” on what professionalism is. A “qualified yes” is essentially a “no”—family …