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Targeting Mitochondrial Dynamics to Treat Cancer and Pulmonary Hypertension

Dr. Archer's Blog

- 16 November 2016

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,

Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

- Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio

Cloud Sourced Anxiety: Achieving Equilibrium in an Age of Digital Deluge

Dr. Archer's Blog

- 21 October 2016

“The television is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn't time to protest, 'What nonsense!'.”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose: What’s changed (and what’s unchanged) in Medicine since 1966

Dr. Archer's Blog

- 3 October 2016

NBC’s Dr. Kildare show-doctors in the 1960s

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease

~William Osler

Ontario’s Alternate Level of Care (ALC) Problem is Killing Acute Care Hospitals: Time to cut the Gordian knot.

Dr. Archer's Blog

- 27 July 2016

We need a bold solution to a major health care problem: Almost 20% of the acute care beds in Kingston are unavailable for admission of new patients. How can this be? How could 20% of the beds in the SELHIN’s only tertiary care hospital have gone missing? Why have I not heard about it? Why is this not in the newspapers? What happened to these beds? Are they closed because of construction? Is there an epidemic? Has hospital funding been cut? The answer in each case is, “No”.

Patient Privacy: A call for a cultural and architectural revolution in healthcare

Dr. Archer's Blog

- 12 July 2016

The Oxford English Dictionary defines privacy as: A state in which one is not observed or disturbed by other people: she returned to the privacy of her own home or The state of being free from public attention:a law to restrict newspapers' freedom to invade people’s privacy This blog is written to remind doctors, doctors in training, secretaries and others who have access to health care records about the risks of inappropriately accessing health care records.

Thinking of Syria

Dr. Archer's Blog

- 23 June 2016

This is a blog about Syrian refugees. They are a specific people coming to Canada at a specific time for specific reasons. However, their stories are entwined with those of past immigrants, such as those of my wife’s family, the Doliszny’s. They came from Ukraine. In a generation the Dolisznys became nurses, lawyers, engineers, epidemiologists and educators. The lesson I take form this is that immigration enriches our country and should be embraced. Canada has a wonderful museum that tells the story of immigration, Pier 21 in Halifax.