The Narrative Imperative: Thursday March 31

Thank you to Dr. Rex Kay for leading us through another successful Doctors’ Lounge Festival of Medical Storytelling.

Dr. Kay is an editor of Ars Medica: A Journal of Medicine, The Arts and Humanities (www.ars-medica.ca )  Ars Medica is an award-winning Toronto-based literary journal which explores illness, healing, perceptions of the body, and encounters with healthcare.

 

An Evening With Dr. Molly Shoichet: THURSDAY FEBRUARY 25

Thank you to Dr. Molly Shoichet http://www.ecf.utoronto.ca/~molly/home.html for her inspiring thoughts and insights presented at our quadrennial celebration of Leap Day, building on the wisdom of Maimonides' guidance for our profession, as taught to us by our first Leap Day speaker, Dr. Alex Jadad:

 

 

Physician as Patient: An Evening With Dr. Paula Rowland

Thank you to Dr. Paula Rowland  http://www.cpd.utoronto.ca/research/biography/paula-rowland-reg-ot-ont-phd/  for a thought provoking evening.
For more information on the AMS Phoenix Project, see:  http://www.theamsphoenix.ca/

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Interesting thoughts from Steve Paikin on the topic: http://tvo.org/blog/current-affairs/when-will-ontarios-health-care-system-finally-focus-on-the-patient

DECEMBER 8: A Night of Medical Imagineering

Thank you to the following doctors & their assistants who made our 3rd annual Medical Imagineering Night a success:

Dr. Julielynn Wong http://www.3d4md.com/

Dr. Kieran Murphy http://www.car.ca/uploads/Education%20Lifelong%20Learning/Meetings/ASM2013_Speakers_Pres/EE005_Oral_Antioxidants_for_Radioprotection_in_Medical_Imaging_Exams.pdf
Dr. Ramin Safakish http://allevioclinic.com/
Dr. Akbar Khan http://medicorcancer.com/
Medical student Zack Dulberg
Our Tech Talkers, Drs. Steve Pomedli, (www.consultloop.com) Rob Horvath (www.medevision.com) , David Gotlib (https://konode.wistia.com/medias/mwqstccbrf , https://konode.wistia.com/medias/mwqstccbrf), Christopher Dainton (www.quickchartmd.com), Jeremy Theal (www.agentplus.ca) , Jihad Abouali (www.consultconduit.com) and Marco Lo (www.magentahealth.ca).  

 

NOVEMBER 11: Making Love & War Intelligently

Thank you to Nikola Danaylov https://www.singularityweblog.com/   for his talk “On War, Death, Love and Being Human: How Our Exponential Technology is Changing Everything We Know for Sure.”
You might find the following web site on Exponential Medicine of interest: https://exponential.singularityu.org/medicine/videos/
Another site of interest on the singularity: http://singularityhub.com/

October 14: An Evening With Dr. Gregory M. Brown

Thank you to Dr. Gregory M. Brown , one of the world’s leading authorities on melatonin, for a clear overview on an emerging therapeutic tool

Two recent texts on the subject should help you start your own exploration on the topic : http://www.amazon.com/Melatonin-Melatonergic-Drugs-Clinical-Practice/dp/8132208242#reader_8132208242  

http://www.amazon.com/Melatonin-Therapeutic-Neuroprotection-Venkatramanujan-Srinivasan/dp/1482220091#reader_1482220091

 

 

June 23: An Evening with Dr. Philip Berger

Thank you to Dr. Berger for sharing lessons learned in medical advocacy, and hopefully inspiring us to do our share in advocating for our patients.