December 9: An Evening with Drs. Emma Hapke & Paul Uy

Thank you to Drs. Hapke and Uy for giving us a hopeful glimpse into the therapeutic future.
See: https://maps.org/

November 11: Annual Remembrance Day Program

Thank you to all who braved a prematurely snowy Remembrance Day to explore the proposal by Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet, that  suggested that Holocaust education become a requirement for medical students.

FURTHER RESOURCES:

A RECENT ARTICLE OF RELEVANCE (use Google translate): When Medicine Serves Evil

GOLD FOUNDATION: ON TEACHING MEDICAL STUDENTS

A RECENT CANADIAN SURVEY ON HOLOCAUST AWARENESS

MEDICINE & THE HOLOCAUST  WEBSITES:

MIMEH (Maimonides Institute for Medicine, Ethics and  the Holocaust)

CMATH ( Center for Medicine After The Holocaust)

USEFUL VIDEOS:

Dr. Sheena Eagan

Dr. Michael Grodin

DR. CAPLAN

SECOND INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARS WORKSHOP ON MEDICINE IN THE HOLOCAUST AND BEYOND

Modern Physicians Deal With The Horrors of Their Legacy:

The Nuremberg 2012 Declaration (Apology by the German Medical Association)

A Commentary in the Lancet

Japanese physicians struggle with their legacy (Unit 731)

N=1 The story of Dr. Brandt

October 17: An Evening with Dr. Lorraine Ferris

... And then we doctors have always been a simple, trusting folk!.. As members of a free profession we are expected to do our own thinking; and yet the literature that comes to us daily indicates a thraldom not less dangerous than the polypharmacy from which we are escaping…

-Sir William Osler (1849-1919)  in his address to the OMA, June, 1909

Thank you to Dr. Lorraine Ferris for an illuminating overview of the dark side of “junk science.”

Interesting website on scientific integrity https://retractionwatch.com/the-center-for-scientific-integrity/

Tuesday June 18: An Evening with Dr. Reinhold Vieth

Thank you  to Dr. Reinhold Vieth, Professor, University of Toronto, Departments of Nutritional Sciences and Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, for an illuminating update on vitamin D.

May 28: An Evening with Dr. Michael Gofeld

Thank you to Dr. Michael Gofeld. for guiding us through an engaging evening of collegial interaction as we explored “the reign of pain.”

Tuesday April 30 : Climate, Health & Opportunities For Change

Thank you to our speakers for an engaging overview on climate change:         

              Dr. Edward Xie, Ontario Chair of Canadian Association of Physicians for the  Environment 

       Emmay Mah, Executive Director of Toronto Environmental Alliance

       Dr. Eileen Nicolle, Family Physician, St. Michael’s Hospital

       Dr. Tushar Mehta, Family and ER Physician, CAPE subcommittee on Food and       Sustainability  
        Dr. Dianne Saxe https://saxefacts.com/reports/ 
Further reading: https://www.nejm.org/climate-crisis?query=TOC

Tuesday March 19: Annual Medical Storytelling Festival

Thank you to Dr. Rex Kay of Ars Medica: A Journal of Medicine, The Arts and Humanities (www.ars-medica.ca ) for leading us through another amazing evening of medical storytelling.

special thanks to  Dr. Ronald Ruskin for kicking off the evening with readings from his most recent book, Confessions of a Medical Student .

Monday February 25, 2019: An Evening with Dr. Durhane Wong-Rieger

"When you hear hoof beats, think of horses, not zebras." – attributed to Dr. Theodore Woodward

Thank you to Dr. Durhane Wong-Rieger, President & CEO of CORD, the Canadian Organization for Rare Disorders for presenting an overview of the challenges faced by people with rare disorders.

Some interesting reading on how the spotting, caring and feeding of zebras can be rewarding.

Monday January 21: An Evening with Dr. Cindi Morshead

Thank you to Dr. Cindi Morshead, Professor and Chair of the Division of Anatomy in the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto for a fascinating overview of the work of her lab  and updating us on  the potential of stem cell treatments.