A family physician's legacy.

Canadian Family Physician's new ethics guidelines.

The legacy of childhood sexual abuse and family adversity.

PURPOSE To describe the process by which childhood adversity influences the life course of survivors of childhood sexual abuse. DESIGN A community-based, qualitative, grounded-theory design. METHODS In this grounded theory study, data were drawn from open-ended interviews conducted as part of a larger study of women's and men's responses to sexual violence. The current study indicates the e...

Factors associated with a physician's recommendation for colorectal cancer screening in a diverse population.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening is widely recommended but underused. A physician's recommendation for CRC screening has been consistently associated with patients undergoing CRC screening, but a better understanding of factors influencing a physician's recommendation for CRC screening is needed. This study's purpose was to describe patient and physician factors assoc...

The Family Physician's Role in Identifying and Treating Tobacco Addiction among Adolescents

Reform by reflection: Schön’s legacy to management practice in times of uncertainty

In this paper, we revisit Donald Schön’s scholarly work on “handling uncertainty”, suggesting that in order to cope reasonably well with uncertainty, practitioners should be encouraged to take a reflective existential stance, aimed to explore their own tacit personal style (i.e., theories-in-use). They should (i) recall and reflect on their theories-in-use to bear on the phenomenon, (ii) metaph...