With the early call for a federal election, new CMA President Dr. Cindy Forbes hit the road running — at a pace that threatens to continue all year. Not that it will faze Forbes. As a runner and competitive paddler, the 56-year-old family physician from Waverley, Nova Scotia, knows about endurance. And she also knows medical politics after 30 years in the fray, beginning in medical school. Firs...

Screening for poverty. 2,3 Providing health care to uninsured migrants.4 Advocating for a national pharmacare program.5 These are but 3 examples of how family physicians are currently actualizing social accountability in Canada at the individual (micro), community (meso), and system (macro) levels. Social accountability is the social contract that medicine has with society.6 For care to be soci...

To the Editor: Sarcoidosis is a multiorgan inflammatory disease characterized histologically by noncaseating granulomas. Cutaneous involvement occurs in approximately 25% of cases. Although not all patients require treatment, for those who do, corticosteroids and steroid-sparing agents may be useful. Unfortunately, these are universally effective, use limited toxicity. Unmet need exists new saf...

© 2011 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors CMAJ, January 11, 2011, 183(1) 15 As society and health care have evolved, so too has CMAJ. Indeed, the journal is a reflection of the society in which it is firmly rooted. With its 100-year history and the many successes highlighted by CMA President Dr. Jeffrey Turnbull, CMAJ is ready to move into its second century. CMAJ has sought to disse...