Dt r. J. Edwin Coffey's Viewpoint article (Can Med Assoc J 1989; 140: 316-317) is one of the
first stirrings of the intellectual renaissance that will be needed to effect any meaningful …

'The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, under the'excellent chairmanship of Roy
Wilkins, and Arnold Aaronson, secretary, have worked diligently to improve the civil rights …

S hortly before Christmas, Health Minister Perrin Beat-ty announced that thefederal
government would provide $120 000 to every Canadian who became infected with the …

In this application (Independent and Daily Telegraph 30 June 1992) the point at issue was
whether a 4-year-old boy, suffering from leukaemia, unresponsive to chemotherapy, should …

Of particular concern to the NMA is appre-hension in various segments of our society that
the majority population of the United States might promote birth control among minorities as …

The child's anemia had been documented in another hospital 1 month earlier. She had not
been given a transfusion but was to receive close follow-up for assessment of her response …

I am not sure which of Dr. Steever's points are most compelling and worrisome. In my article
about the US health care system, as observed during the illness and death of my mother in …

Student International Clinical Conference SIR,-The British Medical Students' Association has
undertaken once again to organize a Student International Clinical Conference in Great …

I suggest that there are two major omissions from the CMA's Code of Ethics."'Comfort
always." As a med-ical student I remember that phrase being taught to me during our clinical …

Yvonne de Buda's editorial (" The Family Physician and the Care of the Terminally Ill", Can
Fam Physician 1980; 26: 1002-1004) emphasizes the importance of communication …