… Shane Neilson is poetry advisor for CMAJ and was not involved in the editorial decision-…
Funding: Shane Neilson is supported by a Talent Grant from the Social Sciences and …

Like many other disciplines, medicine often resorts to metaphor in order to explain complicated
concepts that are imperfectly understood. But what happens when medicine's metaphors …

Narrative Medicine as originated by Rita Charon began as an attempt to redress the
unopposed biomedicalisation of the medical profession. Although the movement has been self-…

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to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and …

Objective:To compare the results of urine cultures and reagent strip testing in 2 groups of
elderly emergency department (ED) patients: an asymptomatic group unlikely to have urinary …

When I walk past my waiting room, I see people wearing surgical masks. This scene
becomes surreal when my patients are watching pandemic disaster movies on the wall-mounted …

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chapters, the contributors The right of Alan Bleakley and Shane Neilson to be identified as the …

Background: In Ontario, Canada, there is variability in how students experiencing a mental
health crisis are transferred from university health clinics to hospital for emergent psychiatric …

THIRD RAIL resources should aim both at saving the most lives and at maximizing improvements
in individuals’ post-treatment length of life. Saving more lives and more years of life is …

Objective The objective of this commentary is to summarize the few findings from the scientific
literature pertaining to humane mental health transfer practices in the province of Ontario …