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Cover of Lounge, Issue 1, Spring 2026

Volume 1, Issue 1, Spring 2026

Lounge, Issue 1

Long-form essays, reporting, and arguments by Canadian clinicians on the practice and future of medicine.

  1. Performing Medicine

    As a community paediatrician, parents bring their children to me for a variety of issues.

    Nadia Aumeerally

  2. The Blueprint We Never Drew

    We do not have an imaging problem. We have a design problem.

    Judy Rowe

  3. The Canada Health Act as a Sacred Doctrine

    Even the noblest ideas ossify when treated as unchangeable doctrine.

    Jacob Cookey

  4. Who holds the keys to the vault?

    Just like food supply and hunger, it is not a question of resource quantity. It's a question of distribution.

    Andrew Lodge

  5. The Atomic Unit of Healthcare

    Strip away the layers of technique and technology, and what remains is irreducible: one person suffering, another responding.

    Daniel Rasic