by Courtney Howard | Jan 23, 2020 | Featured, Physician Wellness
Increasing awareness of the urgency of climate change, led by the youth climate movement, and growing felt impacts of the health effects of climate change, including the devastating bushfires in Australia, are fuelling a global increase in interest in the concepts of...
by Curtis Lavoie | Jan 22, 2020 | Featured, Physician Wellness
As a species, we’re making bad choices – polluting the planet and making life difficult now, and perhaps impossible in the future. As physicians, it is time to do what you do best: heal the planet. Ok sure, that sounds corny, but take a listen and let me...
by Gary Bota | Jan 21, 2020 | Featured, Physician Wellness
I’m a boomer Canadian Emergency physician, with a special interest in climate change. My oral fellowship exam took place in a small hotel room where facial bone x-rays were held up against the Montreal skyline awaiting my interpretation. I went directly from resident...
by Joe Vipond | Jan 20, 2020 | Featured, Physician Wellness
I’ll admit it, I’m scared. Every day, my newsfeed is filled with more news stories and scientific papers underlining the fact that our society’s current trajectory is akin to suicide as a species. As someone who has grown accustomed to civilization,...
by Lisa Fischer | Jan 19, 2020 | Featured, Physician Wellness
It’s hard to believe that EMOttawa and CAEP (Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians) are hosting the 4th annual Canadian Emergency Medicine Wellness Week (January 20th to 24th 2020)! Over the years, we’ve published blog posts from EM leaders across the country...