I nominated our family physician for an award last year. Sadly, she didn’t win this well-deserved recognition, but I made sure to send...

Taking care of another human being is the most honourable job on Earth. Caregiving is also devalued, unrecognized and unsupported. There...

This series of 4 essays was originally posted on LinkedIn, based on my Levels of Advocacy diagram for patient and family advocates. A....

Naively, when I began advocacy twenty years ago, I envisioned a cycle of quality improvement where things only got better. I never...

I've been thinking about a recent article written by Lisa Machado called Canada’s Advocates are Burning Out. I'm grateful to Lisa for...

I recently had the opportunity to review case studies about Down syndrome that are used to teach medical students. My main response was:...

Years ago at a health conference I heard a nun who worked in Winnipeg’s North End say, “Beauty should be a social determinant of health.”...

There are many euphemisms for being sick: under the weather, unwell, out of sorts. When I had cancer, many people whispered the word...

I was immediately drawn to the cover of Dr. Sammy Winemaker and Dr. Hsien Seow’s new book Hope for the Best, Plan for the Rest: 7 key to...

This is a story about making a story. Telling the story behind the story might be meta, but art, like the video I created, does not just...

On Sunday July 9, 2023, I was sitting at a table in a ballroom with my youngest son Aaron and my husband Mike. We all had our Sunday best...

I presented as a patient with sudden onset of abdominal issues who was terrified that her breast cancer had returned. My family physician...

This is the last in the series about my new Give a Duck Community. I see online spaces as a puzzle. No one site can give me everything I...

…sometimes simplicity is the most powerful spiritual stimulation. - Nicholas J Petrelli, M.D. On the surface, The Proximity of Mortality,...

The second in a series Last month I wrote about my growing discomfort with Twitter that ended with the assertion: There’s got to be a...

Health care's raison d'être is to care for patients. If patients and caregivers aren't an organization's #1 stakeholder - the first...

This essay is the first of a series The other day I posted this picture of me wearing an N95 mask on Twitter. I have a big-ish following...

(Lorraine) helped her staff address their challenges, and recognize their joys, in taking care of patients and their families...and the...

There is a genre called solarpunk that is a creative way of describing a future state of the world where humanity has succeeded in...

How can we relate to stories that threaten our own? Some of us go towards the threat. We search and question and dig. Some of us...