Recording of event here: http://daradocs.org/webinar/
http://daradocs.org/webinar/
Sunday, 20 September 2020
Tuesday, 15 September 2020
GOOD VIBRATIONS
Looking for a healthy addition to your life?
Consider the experience of virtually joining the Toronto Physicians Choir .
Led by choral director Paul Genyk-Berezowsky
No experience necessary
No auditions
Saturday, 22 August 2020
December 10: An evening with Dr. Rex Kay & Friends
Stories can heal.
Stories can harm.
Stories matter.
During these tumultuous times, you have become a part of stories.
Your stories, the stories of others.
Stories about life and death, fear and courage, Us and Them.
You are invited to a special edition of the Doctors’ Lounge annual Festival of Medical Storytelling, an evening dedicated to sharing stories, poems, songs and artwork about the experience of being part of the health-care system,shared from any perspective.
Presenters are asked to keep their contributions to 5 minutes or less (we welcome creative efforts in pieces of one minute or less. In the past, some of these shorter presentations have been quite moving. It is amazing what can be conveyed in a few words! ).
Even if you are not prepared to be a presenter, feedback from audience members will hopefully make this a fully interactive experience. Dr. Rex Kay of Ars Medica: A Journal of Medicine, The Arts and Humanities (www.ars-medica.ca ) will be on hand to give insightful feedback on the creative efforts presented. Ars Medica is an award-winning Toronto-based literary journal which explores illness, healing, perceptions of the body, and encounters with health-care.
Let’s usher out 2020 with a reminder that stories matter.
Discussion piece: poetry and the pandemic: here
November 11: An Evening with Dr. Meb Rashid
Death. Destruction. Disease. Disability. Displacement.
As we reflect on the aforementioned consequences of war this Remembrance Day, you are invited to join us in The Doctors’ Lounge to reflect on the ongoing worldwide plight of refugees, through the lens of caring for them in our practices in Toronto.
Our guide for the evening will be Dr. Meb Rashid, Medical Director of the Crossroads Clinic at Women’s College Hospital.
Dr. Rashid is a recent recipient of the OMA Presidential Award which is given annually to a member of the OMA in recognition of their exceptional and long-lasting humanitarian service to the greater community, within Ontario or elsewhere.
Please join us for an examination of a tragic aspect of our chaotic world that has been displaced by other news of the day, and give yourself the opportunity to gather clinical pearls on managing this vulnerable population.
October 14: An Evening with Dr. Patricia Lakin-Thomas
November’s darkness looms, and with it, an annual ritual: the changing of the clock.
Some rituals die a natural death.
Others need the assistance of the enlightened.
The position of the Canadian Society for Chronobiology is that, based on current knowledge of chronobiology, permanent Standard Time is a wiser and healthier choice than our present situation.
This position was also recently endorsed by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
Should the OMA support this position?
You are cordially invited to consider that question
Presenting the arguments in favour of this premise on behalf of the CSC will be Dr. Patricia Lakin- Thomas , Principal Investigator at York University’s Clocklab .
The rhythms of life demand respect, especially in the COVID-19 era.
The cost of disregarding basic biology can be measured in our health.
Please join us for a lively discussion.
September 16: An Evening With Nikola Danaylov
The future.
Two words with new meaning since COVID-19 overturned our world.
What is the future, but a story we tell ourselves?
How do we as physicians tell patients that story, after they tell us theirs?
What have we learned from physicians telling stories for thousands of years, stories that today seem preposterous? What stories were we telling ourselves and our patients only six months ago that today seem ridiculous?
The present is just the future’s past, and we are living it daily.
The present is a gift, one that we can share with each other.
You and a guest are invited to share the gifts of our distinguished guest as we explore the future with futurist Nikola Danaylov, bestselling author of Conversations with the Future .
Please join us as we take the Doctors’ Lounge into the future, virtually, plunging into the unknown with expert guidance.
Wednesday, 1 January 2020
Wednesday February 26: An Evening with Dr. Sonu Gaind
Thank you to Dr.
K. Sonu Gaind for guiding us through an enlightening discussion on the dark topic of MAID for mental health patients. See: https://www.eagmaid.org/
Further reading at:
Further reading at:
Recent article of interest: https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/opinion-assisted-dying-maid-legislation-medical-providers-1.5459942
Tuesday January 21: An Evening with Drs. Johane Allard & Susy Hota
Thank you to Drs
Johane Allard and Susy Hota of the
University of Toronto Microbiota Therapeutics Outcomes Program (MTOP) for kicking off our 16th year in the Doctors' Lounge with an elucidating overview of local Fecal Microbial Transplant (FMT) research.
FMT research can
only move forward with the volunteer work of donors and subjects. Please consider
recruiting your patients for either cause.
Why can you buy bacteria at the health food store, but you
can’t buy worms?
Some interesting Canadian
involvement in a theory that has led to an underground
movement
Canadian insights on antibiotics and the brain.
A buzzword for the future: psychobiotics !
BIG (brain/immmune/gut) ideas : mood and brain health
Canadian insights on antibiotics and the brain.
A buzzword for the future: psychobiotics !
BIG (brain/immmune/gut) ideas : mood and brain health
The microbiome & the immune
system: the role of antibiotics
An interestin perspective on an ounce of prevention: https://isappscience.org/a-miracle-treatment-or-not/
An interestin perspective on an ounce of prevention: https://isappscience.org/a-miracle-treatment-or-not/
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