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.

A sampling of further reading to reflect on “you” your microbiome :

We know where babies come from, but where does their microbiome come from?

What is the feces for FMTs made of?

A word on probiotics , some industry sponsored evidence- based recommendations

A provocative article on how modern morbidity may be microbiome based and transmissible

Some Canadian content on cancer & the microbiome and some concerns about FMT

An example of interconnection: the gut & CKD

Auto-brewery syndrome: rare but interesting

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 !

FMT for mood: preliminary evidence and a good review

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/

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