Sep 16, 2021
In this Third Rail Edition of the CFP Podcast, Editorial Fellow Dr. Sarah Fraser interviews Dr. Adam Sandell on the use of the term family physician. Dr. Sandell is a physician who worked in the UK's national health service for 20 years before moving to B.C. at the start of the pandemic.
Alongside his work as a physician in the UK, Dr. Sandell worked as a barrister, specializing in health-related human rights law.
Read Dr. Sandell's Third Rail article in the September 2021 issue of CFP, "I'm a GP"
The Third Rail is the rail on a train track with a live current running through it, dangerous to the touch. This section in Canadian Family Physician and the CFP Podcast deals with topics that are "Third Rail": controversial and taboo in family medicine.