4TheRcrd Mag.

Above: Jacob Amoah (7)
Asebu, Ghana
It’s 6:30 am in Asebu, a rural community in central Ghana. All of the orphans at Asebu’s Home of Hope are fetching water for their morning baths, all of them except Jacob. ‘Jo’ as he is sometimes called, is hiding in the bushes behind his home with feces running down […]

This is the last week of my medical clerkship up in the Sunshine Coast. I have had a marvelous time; beautiful scenery, wonderful staff in the clinic and in the hospital, basically nothing I could complain about. I now see why the university sends us away from the main city to do this clerkship; […]

Time flies…week 2 of my clerkship ended with a graveyard shift in emergency on Friday. On my way to the hospital that night, an ambulance passed me by, and it took a while for it to sink in that both of us were heading to the same place, that I will get to […]

I cannot believe that week one of my clerkship has already come to an end. My time has been evenly split between the clinic I work at and the only hospital serving the sunshine coast, St. Mary’s Hospital. Thursday was my longest day but it was also my most exciting day yet, I’ll explain why…
I […]

I still cannot believe I survived what is considered the worst exam period of all of med school. It seems so long ago too for some reason, but the last set of exams was just this last Wednesday. After that, I had 3 days to finally spend some time with […]

Farmer Profile: Snow Farm
For over 9 years, the Snow family has been producing over 85 different organic vegetables including artichokes, beets, cabbage, cauliflower, chard, collards, cucumber, fennel, kale, leeks, parsley, shallots and spinach on their farm. One of their biggest crops is celery. “I believe we have the largest celery farm, including the non-organic farms, […]

Duncan McNicholl, a friend of 4TheRcrd’s at Engineers without Borders (EWB) is heading to Malawi in southern Africa with Engineers Without Borders working in the agriculture sector. These good people featured LUGZ COFFEE LOUNGE on their site for getting involved in importing fairly traded coffee’s into Vancouver and featuring them in our stores in […]

Dr. Susan Barr, one of the nutrition experts involved in creating Canada’s Food Guide, came to give our medical class a lecture today. In 2007, there was a new Food Guide released, replacing the old 1992 version ( about time!). So what’s different about this new version?
- Well, the old version didn’t have food recommendations […]

I’ve read about an interesting Food Bank concept you may not know about. This one is headed by a local Highschool here in Vancouver.
York House School is currently involved in the Rogers Phones-for-Food High School Challenge. In this challenge, old cell phones are recycled to reduce e-waste. The money raised from recycling the cell […]

This is the name of the documentary that recently aired on CBC Newsworld’s The Lens. It is actually Dr. Jay Wortman’s diet- a metis physician who believes that the soaring rates of diabetes and obesity in the aboriginal population are due to the drastic change in their diet. Dr. Wortman has a family […]