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From the Current Issue: July 2008; 54 (7) [Table of Contents]

Neil J. MacKinnon and Claudia Sanmartin

Middle of the health care pack: Canada’s performance in the 2007 Commonwealth Fund international survey
CFP 54: 965-966. [Full Text] [PDF]

Roberto Leon

Ladies first: Should boys be vaccinated against HPV?
CFP 54: 967-968. [Full Text] [PDF]

From Past Issues:

Kenneth Kirkwood

Casting call: The perils of auditioning patients
CFP 54: 831-832. [Full Text] [PDF]

Dan R. Reilly

Breaching confidentiality and destroying trust: The harm to adolescents on physicians’ rosters
CFP 54: 834-835. [Full Text] [PDF]

Jean M. Maskey

A change of place and pace: Family physicians as hospitalists in Canada
CFP 54: 669-670. [Full Text] [PDF]

Heather Bryant and S. Elizabeth McGregor

Perception versus reality: Overcoming barriers to colorectal cancer screening
CFP 54: 495-497. [Full Text] [PDF]

Arya M. Sharma

A weighty issue: Medication as a cornerstone of medical obesity management
CFP 54: 498-499. [Full Text] [PDF]

Baukje Miedema, Ryan Hamilton, and Julie Easley

Climbing the walls: Structural barriers to accessing primary care for refugee newcomers in Canada
CFP 54: 335-336. [Full Text] [PDF]

Mark Sherman

Evidence-based common sense?
CFP 54: 166-168. [Full Text] [PDF]

Nicholas Pimlott

Who has time for family medicine?
CFP 54: 14-16. [Full Text] [PDF]

James Rourke

The ideal family physician: W. Victor Johnston oration to the College of Family Physicians of Canada, Convocation, Winnipeg, Man, October 2007
CFP 54: 18-19. [Full Text] [PDF]

Jennifer Fortune and Kumanan Wilson

Preserving relationships with antivaccine parents: Five suggestions from social psychology
CFP 53: 2083-2085. [Full Text] [PDF]

Carmel M. Martin

Chronic disease and illness care: Adding principles of family medicine to address ongoing health system redesign
CFP 53: 2086-2091. [Full Text] [PDF]

Peter A. Singer

Motivating action: Why should Canadian physicians participate in research, education, or patient care in the developing world?
CFP 53: 1849-1851. [Full Text] [PDF]

Kevin Pottie, Lynda Redwood-Campbell, Katherine Rouleau, Veronic Ouellette, and Francine Lemire

Degrees of engagement: Family physicians and global health
CFP 53: 1853-1857. [Full Text] [PDF]

Francois-Pierre Gladu

Perceived shortage of family doctors in Quebec: Can we do something about it?
CFP 53: 1858-1860. [Full Text] [PDF]

Pierre Biron, Martin Plaisance, and Paul Levesque

Pharmas-co-dependence exposed: Would it be time to say, "No thanks"?
CFP 53: 1635-1637. [Full Text] [PDF]

Leigh Turner

Medical tourism: Family medicine and international health-related travel
CFP 53: 1639-1641. [Full Text] [PDF]

David Butler-Jones

A pound of cure?: Avoiding a generational decline in overall health
CFP 53: 1409-1410. [Full Text] [PDF]

Adrienne Einarson and Gideon Koren

Prescribing antidepressants to pregnant women: What is a family physician to do?
CFP 53: 1412-1414. [Full Text] [PDF]

Barbara Lent, May Cohen, Sheila Dunn, and Cheryl A. Levitt

Promoting gender equity in family medicine
CFP 53: 1415-1417. [Full Text] [PDF]

Rita Charon

What to do with stories: The sciences of narrative medicine
CFP 53: 1265-1267. [Full Text] [PDF]

Nili Kaplan-Myrth

Interpreting people as they interpret themselves: Narrative in medical anthropology and family medicine
CFP 53: 1268-1269. [Full Text] [PDF]

Elisabeth Gold

From narrative wreckage to islands of clarity: Stories of recovery from psychosis
CFP 53: 1271-1275. [Full Text] [PDF]

Maria Auxiliadora Craice De Benedetto, Ariane Gianfelice de Castro, Elsi de Carvalho, Rokia Sanogo, and Pablo Gonzalez Blasco

From suffering to transcendence: Narratives in palliative care
CFP 53: 1277-1279. [Full Text] [PDF]

Frederick Donald Fraser

Literature and medicine: Exploring Margaret Atwood’s short story "Death by Landscape"
CFP 53: 1280-1281. [Full Text] [PDF]

Shayna Watson

An extraordinary moment: The healing power of stories
CFP 53: 1283-1287. [Full Text] [PDF]

Roslyn Schwartz

Doctor as story-listener and storyteller
CFP 53: 1288-1289. [Full Text] [PDF]

Timothy Caulfield

Obesity, legal duties, and the family physician
CFP 53: 1129-1130. [Full Text] [PDF]

Mark Robert Keezer, Anand Rughani, Matthew Carroll, and Barbara Haas

Head first: Bicycle-helmet use and our children’s safety
CFP 53: 1131-1132. [Full Text] [PDF]

Stephen Wetmore

A duty to certify death: Helping family doctors meet their responsibilities
CFP 53: 977-978. [Full Text] [PDF]

Linda J. Spano

A terrible beauty: A physician’s story of ovarian cancer
CFP 53: 983-985. [Full Text] [PDF]

Noah Michael Ivers and Ramzy Abdel-Galil

Marketing family medicine: Challenging misconceptions
CFP 53: 793-794. [Full Text] [PDF]

Stephen J. Genuis

An ounce of prevention: A pound of cure for an ailing health care system
CFP 53: 597-599. [Full Text] [PDF]

Lynda Redwood-Campbell, Veronic Ouellette, Katherine Rouleau, Kevin Pottie, Francine Lemire, and From the International Health Committee and College of Family Physicians of Canada

International health and Canadian family practice: Relevant to me, is it?
CFP 53: 600-602. [Full Text] [PDF]

J.L. Reynolds

Hard to know: What is hard knowledge?
CFP 53: 385-385. [Full Text] [PDF]

Faizal Bawa

A quantum leap in medicine
CFP 53: 386-386. [Full Text] [PDF]

Dominique Pestiaux and Carl Vanwelde

Becoming a general practitioner: Where’s the joy in that?
CFP 53: 387-388. [Full Text] [PDF]

Miriam Divinsky

Stories for life: Introduction to narrative medicine
CFP 53: 203-205. [Full Text] [PDF]

Michael Malus

Ethical consultation
CFP 53: 206-207. [Full Text] [PDF]

Susan MacDonald

Duty to deliver: Producing more family medicine graduates who practise obstetrics
CFP 53: 13-15. [Full Text] [PDF]