News & Information
Journalism/Information Papers
When I'm 64 Journal of the Canadian Medical Association 179:4. http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/179/4/388 . August, 2008.
John Snow, hero of cholera: RIP. Journal of the Canadian Medical Association 179:3, 257. June 17, 2008. http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/178/13/1736
The Golubchuk case: Editorial response (Letter). Journal of the Canadian Medical Association http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/eletters/178/9/1115#19277 . 29 April 2008.
Were Polio to return today… Journal of the Canadian Medical Association 178:4, 1244. 2008. http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/178/9/1244
The Body in the World: The art of Lila LoCurto and Bill Outcault. J. Canadian Medical Association 178:3, 191-3. http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/178/2/191 15 January 2008.
Robert Latimer: Bait and Switch. Journal of the Canadian Medical Association 178:3, 360. 15. January 2008.
Bioethics: What a grand idea. Journal of the Canadian Medical Association 178:1, 116.1 Jan. 2008.
A Doctor in This house: Television’s Gregory House. Canadian Medical Association Journal 178:1, 67. 1 Jan 2008.
Vancouver is like an adolescent about to grow up. SFU Reports, 5. http://www.sfu.ca/mediapr/sfu_news/regular_features/comment04050601.htm . 5 April 2006.
Who will deliver healthcare in British Columbia? SFU Reports, p.5. 9 March 2005. http://www.sfu.ca/mediapr/sfu/News/regular_features/comment03090601.htm .
Why we doubt privatized health care. Victoria Times Colonist 22 Feb. 2006, A13.
Fighting the battle against epidemic disease. Simon Fraser University News 20 Oct. 2005, p. 5.
An Alternative to Alternative Medicine. Simon Fraser University News. 10 March 2005. http://www.sfu.ca/mediapr/sfu_news/regular_features/comment.html
Fantasies in our daily political news: Stephen Harper insists he is not beholden to anyone. Simon Fraser University News 5 Feb. 2004.
What we don't know about life and death: The Terri Shiavo case. Simon Fraser University News 13 Nov. 2003.
Has academe lost its sense of participation? Simon Fraser University News, 5 10 July, 2003.
Return of the plague: Epidemics and Public Health.Ottawa Citizen (op-ed: editorial) 10 June, 2003.
BC would be hard pressed to treat SARS outbreak, Vancouver Sun (Letter), A15 31 March, 2003.
In praise of the Romanow Commission, Simon Fraser University News, 5. 23 Jan. 2003.
Nearing the End of the Medical Dark Ages. Simon Fraser University News 31 Oct. 2002.
US Freedoms Dealt Serious Body Blow, Simon Fraser University News 5, Sept. 2002.
Doctors show the government/that dealing with union was easy part. Vancouver Sun 29 May, 2002.
War? What war?: Comments on the Afghanistan conflict, Simon Fraser University News 24:2 16 May 2002.
"Art Imitating Health Care? The movie John Q and the problem of graft organ distribution. Simon FraserUniversity News. Feb. 2002.
B.C. Healthcare's Brave New World, Simon Fraser University News 2 May, 2002.
Organ transplants without borders. National Post, A 13, 30 April, 2001.
Medical care requires compassion. Winnipeg Free Press, (Letter) 17 April 2001.
Disabled are not Dogs (commentary on the Robert Latimer case) Vancouver Sun A-15 7 Feb. 2001.
Age in a changing world. Rafe Meir Show (CKNW), Vancouver 6 Feb. 2001.
Fetal Cell Research: The Canadian alternatives CBC Radio noon open line show (Vancouver) 25 Jan. 2001.
Spend the budget surplus? What Surplus? CBC Radio Commentary (national). 3 Nov. 2000.
"Should Canada Permit Zenotransplantation?" CBC Noon Hour radio show, Noon Hour, Vancouver, BC. Aug. 20, 2000.
Computer Assisted Journalism. In, Encyclopedia of Computer Science Ralston, A. and Hemmendger, D. Eds. NY: International Thompson Computer, 2000.
Distributing Canada's wealth across the country saves lives. Vancouver Sun (op-ed) A-14. Aug. 2, 2000.
Tax time: Income redistribution works. CBC Radio Commentary (national). Apr. 18. 2000.
Don't cut costs on the final hours. National Post (op-ed) A-18. Mar. 24, 2000.
The 'Canadian Millenium'. CBC Radio Commentary (national). Jan. 3, 2000.
Food Banks short, again. Of course. CBC Radio, Vancouver. Dec. 18, 1999.
Alberta and the two-tiered system of public health. CBC Radio Commentary (national). Nov 26, 1999.
Prairie Conservatism and the death of Tyrell Dueck. CBC Radio Commentary (national). July 5, 1999.
The Difference a word can make: "Compensation" and the Canadian Hepatitis Controversy. CBC Radio. May, 1998.
Book review, Kenneth W. Goodman, Ed. Ethics, Computing, and Medicine. Annals of Internal Medicine. June, 1998.
Caregivers use the Internet to go beyond the traditional means of fact-gathering. Medicine on the Net. May, 1998.
Caveat Emptor Information Highways. August, 1997.
Online Intimacies: Globe and Mail, Toronto. Focus Sect. p.5, Dec. 14, 1996.
The Myth of a Loving Murder. Reader's Digest (Canadian edition). Aug. 1996.
The Myth of Loving Murder. (The Constructed Tale of Jean and Cecil Brush). Toronto Life Magazine. Dec. 1995.
Reporters, Editors, and the Internet: Future Hopes, Present Problems. The Media and the Internet. Toronto: Ernst & Young. Aug. 1995.
The Reporter in the Information Age. Cahir 11 Journalistiek en Communicate Utrecht, Netherlands. Winter, 1995.
Community vs. Computers. Quill Magazine. May, 1994.
Information Mapping: Data and information. Online Research and CD-ROM Review. Dec. 1993.