10 Jun Game-changers for Congenital Heart Disease
Read Jacques’ presentation on game-changers in the field of congenital heart disease....
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31 May The Art of Well-Being
What is Wellness? Read Jacques’ presentation on the art of well-being and physician wellness....
27 Apr Establishing Financial Fitness
Seven years ago, I retired from a very busy pediatric cardiac surgery practice, an event long-planned through savings and investments. My wife, our senior financial adviser and I worked together to manage our portfolio in a conservative yet innovative way. Since retirement, I have had...
24 Feb Innovative Infrastructure for a Department of Pediatric Surgery
Surgery on children and youth account for a small percentage of the total number of surgeries performed in B.C. each year, yet present some of the greatest challenges and triumphs....
01 Feb The “Medicalization” of Physician Health and Wellness
Despite its rewards, medicine can be a demanding profession with tremendous responsibility. The issue of Physician Health and Wellness resonates across the continuum of physician’s career, from medical training through the spectrum of a full practice....
07 Jan Prestige: A Challenging Value
Two colleagues asked me a question: one at the end of my lecture on “Preparing for Retirement and Retiring,” and the other during a dinner discussion. “What’s about my prestige when I retire?” Both colleagues expressed fear of losing something — a characteristic of themselves...
17 Nov Patching the Holes in the Treatment of Congenital Heart Defect in India
Through education and training, alternative health care practitioners, for example, nurse practitioners and/or physician assistants, can provide basic health care services in the rural communities including awareness of pediatric congenital heart disease....
12 Sep CHD In Developing Countries
Currently there is a shortage of data on the burden of general surgical-related and specific cardiovascular diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa. We take a closer look....
20 Jun Finding a new me!
In 2010 I retired from being a pediatric cardiac surgeon due to increasing health concerns and a dissatisfaction in practicing medicine. I had serious risk factors of heart disease from my father affecting not only myself but my siblings. Working over 60 hours a week,...
20 Jun The Slow Disappearance of Iconic Cardiac Pioneers
Cardiac surgery is a relatively young specialty having evolved for the most part in the second half of the twentieth century, when the use of pacemakers, postoperative antibiotics, postoperative ventilators, and various cardiac and antiarrhythmic drugs gradually became common. Most of these new techniques evolved...