Tristan Bronca
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Features

Overdiagnosed, Overtreated
Exploring psychiatry's decades-long debate over what constitutes mental illness

The Opioid Replacement Problem
This epidemic doesn't get solved without doctors. Where do they fit in?
Sick Doctors
Why many 'bad' physicians deserve sympathy, not shame​
What If We Fail to Curb Climate Change?
How the crisis will affect the life of the average Canadian doctor
A Better Way to Die
Witnessing the work of palliative care doctors first-hand
The Psychedelic Renaissance
How an ancient treatment paradigm is slowly working its way into western medicine

Columns

Everything Has Changed Now
How COVID-19 has changed our ideas about what we owe one another
My Dad, the Wellness Expert
Why doctors hated my father
The Trouble with Translating Pain
The gap between what a patient feels and what a doctor can understand

Kant, the Axe Man, and the Evolving Philosophy of Euthanasia
A thought experiment to guide our discussions on ethics
Why Do Doctors Lie?
We hold them to higher standards of truth for a reason
Let's Talk About Comparing People We Don't Like to Donald Trump
And why that's maybe a bad idea

In Defence of Political Correctness
About 'pregnant people' and those who are upset about being asked to call them that

PMHx

The Pharmaceutical Uses of Alicorn
How a booming trade developed around unicorn horn
A Tale of Three Serpents

The truth over the symbol of medicine
Bill Osler, Practical Joker
The father of modern medicine had a famous sense of humour
Visions of the Medical Future
What did science fiction predict?
​Foucault's Father
A family history of the philosopher who reshaped our ideas about medicine

Q&As

The Doyenne of Physician Wellness
An interview with the doctor who first raised the alarm on physician suicide
​The Hard Truth about Vaccines
An interview with a vaccine science legend

The Case For Euthanasia
An interview with a psychiatrist and proponent
The Case Against Euthanasia
An interview with a family doctor and opponent
This Doctor Knows How You Feel—Really
An interview with a mirror-touch synesthete and neurologist

Book Reviews

Between Fact and Fairy Tale
A review of 'Everything in its Place' by Dr. Oliver Sacks
Medical Pains
A review of 'The Flame Broiled Doctor' by Dr. Frank Warsh
​Age-Old Lessons in Medicine
A review of 'How Not to Be a Doctor' by Dr. John Launer
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