The gentle radical: ten reflections on Ian McWhinney, generalism, and family medicine today.

Benefits of CBT for OCD in pregnancy.

References 1. Pimlott N. The quiet revolutionary. Can Fam Physician 2014;60:9 (Eng), 10 (Fr). 2. Weston WW, Whitehead C. Why continuity matters. Ian McWhinney’s insights for 21st-century medical education. Can Fam Physician 2014;60:11-3 (Eng), 24-6 (Fr). 3. Pimlott N, Upshur REG. From clinical observation to clinical discovery. The challenge for family medicine research. Can Fam Physician 2014;...

Conversation with Ian McWhinney.

In an important and provocative editorial, Dr Roger Ladouceur, my colleague at Canadian Family Physician, lamented the decline of generalism among family physicians, including many recent graduates.1 In response to this editorial, Thomas Freeman and Stephen Wetmore challenged our discipline and our national College2 to confront this emerging identity crisis in family medicine.3 In the great tra...

Reflecting on Dr. Ian McWhinney.

I am of an age now that the first section of the newspaper I turn to in the morning is the obituaries. On October 1, I read with great sadness of the death of Ian McWhinney on September 28. I only met Dr McWhinney twice, although his writing has been a touchstone for me in my career as a family doctor. The first time I met him was about a decade ago when he gave a talk to a group of colleagues ...

Assessing clinical discoveries.

What would an Ian McWhinney health care system look like?

Medicine is an art of translation: physicians absorb a world of diagnostic frameworks and population-based guidelines, and translate them down to the level of a single person whose illness is but one piece of life and whose profile never quite matches the one in the textbook. Family medicine in particular, with its holistic and longitudinal approach so beautifully articulated by Ian McWhinney, ...