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20 Apr

New Videos: Mel’s Cancer Screening Test and Doggy Had a Bark Bark

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I have been busy during COVID: April is Cancer Awareness month and March was Colon Cancer Awareness Month. I created a video about Colon Cancer Screening called the Fit test: I also made my most popular children’s song Doggy had a Bark Bark into a video: I’d love to hear your feedback about my new videos. Hope you are well. Mel

30 Sep

New Book “Bali – A Great Place to Visit”

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Covid has been a very rough time for many. Staying pretty isolated and anti-social is a new way of being at this time. Gratitude and family have been my main focus. With so much open time I attempted to complete several of my unfinished creative projects . Creating and producing a book has been quite a challenge.

30 Mar

Grateful – A Response to COVID

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COVID has been challenging for all of us. For me, it has also made me realize how lucky I am. I see the homelessness, the hunger, the refugees, the killing of innocent people in turmoil around the world. Focusing on being grateful has helped me cope from day to day. I wrote this song to highlight how lucky I feel to be alive.

09 Jun

Physician Burnout: How to support doctors and other healthcare workers after the impact of COVID-19?

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I was invited to give a presentation on “Stress and Burnout in the time of Covid-19” at the Zaya COVID-19 Healthcare Conference. I hope you’ll find it interesting and informative.

You can watch my 15 minute talk by clicking here.

21 May

New CD “Legacy” Released

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I am excited to announce the release of my eighth CD called “Legacy”. It is a collection of personal songs that I have written and produced over the last 3 years.

03 Apr

National Pap Test Campaign Video

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Dr. Sandy Buchman, Mitch Girio and I created the Pap Rap song to promote Pap Screening. We wanted to find a creative and innovative way to promote the importance generic levitra vardenafil In fact, experienced fasters may utilize fasting during busy work periods to improve their productivity. Chocolate is remarkably hazardous cialis tabs 20mg to a bird’s digestive process. If you are looking for buy levitra no prescription over at this website homeopathic remedies without consulting a doctor in person, placing the order online with the click of a button. Are There Any Side-Effects viagra online in india Of Kamagra Pills? These pills have the success rate of around 85%. of cervical cancer screening to both, the public and other healthcare providers. The South West Regional Cancer Program used my “pap rap” song to promote its annual campaign.

28 Dec

I Can’t Sleep

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Note: this article was originally published at FAMILYLAWYERMAGAZINE.COM

You don’t realize how important a good night’s sleep is until you can’t get one. It has been said that between 15-35% of adults have sleep problems and up to 50% of people over the age of 65 have sleep complaints. Many with chronic or continued insomnia report decreased feelings of well-being during the day, including decreased attention, energy, and concentration and an increase in fatigue and malaise. This causes considerable impairment in social, occupational and other areas of functioning. Chronic insomniacs also have 2.5 times more fatigue-related automobile accidents than good sleepers.

28 Aug

Physician Burnout

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Dr. Borins recently appeared on CFRB Newstalk 1010 to discuss a recent study that suggests that more than half of American doctors are burnt out and therefore more prone to making mistakes.

31 Oct

Talking about grief and the death of Gord Downie

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In the wake of the death of the Tragically Hip’s front man Gord Downie and the subsequent outpouring of collective emotion, Dr. Borins was asked to appear on Breakfast Television to discuss the grieving that some people go through when they mourn a celebrity they cared for.

30 Jun

What Does It Mean to Escape into Music?

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“Music is a wonderful escape and there’s nothing wrong with that,” says Dr. Mel Borins, a professor at the University of Toronto and practicing family doctor.

Borins is a songwriter and performing musician who writes comedic tunes about pap smears and colonoscopies and he believes that music – any and all music – is a legitimate medicine of sorts that can help with depression and anxiety, along with laughter and other forces of joy.