Roger Collier

Sep 4, 2024 | cmaj.ca | Roger Collier

The room is abuzz with beeps, bells and flashing lights. Well-dressed men and women wander about, pushing buttons and pulling levers, watching cherries and sevens spin on liquid crystal displays. But these men and women aren't here for fun. They're here for business, and their business is gambling. From April 29 to May 1, 2008, the Palais des Congrès de Montréal in Montréal, Quebec, hosted the 12th annual Canadian Gaming Summit.

May 6, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Afua Aning |Roger Collier |Aaron Morgenstein |Amy Bissada

In the bustling city of New York lived a young woman named Emily. Emily wasn’t a health care provider or even remotely associated with the medical field. She worked as a graphic designer, spending her days creating stunning visuals for advertising campaigns. One evening, while browsing the internet, Emily stumbled upon an article titled “Why Everyone Should Care About Health Care Informatics, Even if You’re Not in the Medical Field.” Curiosity piqued, she began to read.

May 29, 2023 | kevinmd.com | John Paul Mikhaiel |Nina Cloven |James G. Kahn |Roger Collier

When I started my intern year, that is my first year of training in medical residency, I noticed something peculiar about the epidemiology of disease in our hospital. The Black patients on the medical wards would often present with the morbidity of their diseases almost ten to twenty years earlier than their white counterparts.

Apr 20, 2023 | kevinmd.com | Leia Michelle Minaker |Nina Cloven |James G. Kahn |Roger Collier

In a grocery store recently, a friend’s young child gave a big hug to a brightly colored, meter-high plastic cartoon mascot for a well-known candy brand standing at the end of an aisle surrounded by many bags of the candy on sale. “Aww, that’s so cute!” was the mother’s first reaction. Then it dawned on her – it wasn’t cute at all. It was, she realized, very effective and invasive marketing.