These are my notes from a panel I was on with Dr. Kimberlyn McGrail, Dr. Devin Singh and Dr. Khaled El Emam, moderated by Dr. Mohamed...

This essay is a long time coming.  Here is a not-so-eloquent description of my writing process. I get stuff stuck in my head. Then I...

brother do you love me is an exquisite book about the relationship between two brothers.  Co-authors Manni and Reuben Coe have crafted a...

Note: I’m fortunate enough to know authors Sara Fung and Amie Archibald-Varley, as I was a guest on their Gritty Nurse podcast in 2021...

“I tell him I have value. Over and over and over.” -Jamie Hale, poet In early March, we had the privilege of accompanying our son Aaron...

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...