… Brian M. Comelson Family and Community Medicine Wellesley-St. Michael’s Hospital …
Correspondence concerning this paper should be addressed to Brian M. Cornelson, MD …

Family physicians are often faced with multi-factorial problems which are difficult to
understand and document. Patients are not isolated beings; rather, they are participants in …

Jet lag is a symptom complex resulting from travel across time zones, which can incapacitate
travellers for several days. It is a result of the abrupt changes forced on travellers' sense of …

I am troubled by present-day society’s zealous identification of past wrongs by looking at
historic figures through the lens of our present-day values. Turns out our saint Osler has demons…

Part one contains chapters on gen-eral considerations of aging: the physiology, psychosocial
aspects, pharmacokinetic considerations, guidelines and principles for geriatric prescrib-…

The author makes a number of important, relevant and sensitive observations about the
difficulties patients may encounter in presenting their sex-ual concerns directly, the impact of …

The authors make a persuasive argument, but who are they trying to persuade? Health care
providers are clear that population heterogeneity is a major factor in many conditions, …

In their analysis of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in oropharyngeal cancer in five
comprehensive cancer centres, Habbous and colleagues1 did not include sexual orientation as …

As medicine advances, some areas traditionally run by family physicians are being neglected.
This is particularly true of caring for patients who live in institutions, even though they are …

… Brian M. Cornelson, MD, CCFP, Winnipeg, Man. … Bell and Cornelson for their
comments. Indeed Dr. Comelson has touched upon a very salient point regarding stress …