11 Editorial Éditorial

COMMENTARY COMMENTAIRE

13 Duty to deliver
Producing more family medicine graduates who practise obstetrics
Susan MacDonald

17 Le devoir nous appelle
Produire plus de diplômés en médecine familiale qui pratiquent l’obstétrique
Susan MacDonald

DEBATES DÉBATS

22 Rebuttal: Is there a role for marijuana in medical practice?
Yes
Mark Ware
No
Meldon Kahan, Anita Srivastava

24 Réfutation: La marijuana a-t-elle sa place dans la pratique médicale?
Oui
Mark Ware
Non
Meldon Kahan, Anita Srivastava

LETTERS CORRESPONDANCE

29 …In it for profit?

…Clarifying hormone terminology

…Important role in emergency contraception

…Correction

CURRENT PRACTICE PRATIQUE COURANTE

33 Motherisk Update:
Safety of codeine during breastfeeding
Fatal morphine poisoning in the breastfed neonate of a mother prescribed codeine

37 Dermacase:
Red rash with surrounding pustules and vesicles

39 Pediatric Pearls:
Does analgesia mask diagnosis of appendicitis in children?

43 Practice Tips:
Endometrial biopsy

46 Communication Tips:
Patients’ perceptions of consultation length and actual duration

CLINICAL REVIEW RÉVISION CLINIQUE

50 Maladie d’Alzheimer
Mise à jour en 2007
Fadi Massoud

58 Approach to diagnosis and management of abnormal uterine bleeding
Deanna E. Telner, Difat Jakubovicz

65 On the witness stand
Learning the courtroom tango
J. Thomas Dalby

73 Improving diabetes management
Structured clinic program for Canadian primary care
Daren Lin, Shirley Hale, Erle Kirby

RESEARCH RECHERCHE

78 Home or away?
Factors affecting where women choose to give birth
Barbara Zelek, Eliseo Orrantia, Heather Poole, Jessica Strike

84 Inquiring minds
Women’s approaches to evaluating complementary and alternative therapies for menopausal symptoms
Esther Suter, Marja J. Verhoef, Chris Bockmuehl, Nathalie Forest, Mary Bobey, Gail D. Armitage

92 Hands on
Is there an association between doing procedures and job satisfaction?
Christine Rivet, Bridget Ryan, Moira Stewart

94 Why medical students switch careers
Changing course during the preclinical years of medical school
Ian Scott, Margot Gowans, Bruce Wright, Fraser Brenneis

FP WATCH SURVEILLANCE MÉDICALE

Critical Appraisal
97 Effectiveness of antipsychotics
Is the CATIE trial a tsunami?
Emmanuel Stip, Karyne Anselmo

101 Book reviews Livres

REFLECTIONS RÉFLEXIONS

105 More than a job
Facing difficult realities in northern Canada
Stephanie Minorgan

Residents’ Views
106 Reasons to research
Elaine Desnoyers, Christopher Sikora, Miriam Lacasse

Opinions des résidents
108 Les raisons de faire de la recherche
Elaine Desnoyers, Christopher Sikora, Miriam Lacasse

112 Classified Advertising Annonces classées

COLLEGE COLLÈGE

Fast Facts
181 Legal and medicolegal consultations

182 Snapshots

President’s Message
183 Continuity of community
Tom Bailey

Message du président
184 La continuité de la communauté
Tom Bailey

Signes vitaux
185 Commencer la nouvelle année par un hommage à notre élite
Les récipiendaires des prix de la Fondation pour la recherche et l’éducation du CMFC en 2006
Cal Gutkin, Directeur général et chef de la direction

Vital Signs
192 Starting the new year by honouring our best
The CFPC Research and Education Foundation’s 2006 award recipients
Cal Gutkin, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer