Dr. Michelle Cohen

Physician, Dept of Family Medicine, Queen's University

Primary Care & Family Medicine, Women's Health, Equity in Health Care, Rural Health, Health Policy, Pseudoscience & Health Communication

Media

CBC Radio, October 2, 2023Radio/Podcast

URL: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-66-the-morning-edition-sask/clip/16013079-primary-care-physician-talks-myths-versus-realities-gender

Since Saskatchewan’s government introduced a new policy around informing parents if a child wishes to use a different name or pronoun in school, it’s drawn approval from some parents who think that education is excluding them as parents. We’ve heard worries that allowing kids to use different pronouns can lead to gender confusion - or lead kids to prematurely seek hormone therapy or even surgery to cope with dysphoria. We talk to a physician who provides gender affirming care to find out what that care involves, and what it doesn’t involve.

The Skeptic's Guide To EM Podcast, September 28, 2020Radio/Podcast

URL: https://thesgem.com/2020/10/sgem-xtra-money-money-money-its-a-rich-mans-world-in-the-house-of-medicine/

Dr.Michelle Cohen (@DocMCohen). She is a rural Family Physician, writer (CBC News, Toronto Star and McLean’s Magazine), Assistant Professor Queens University and the Co-Chair of the Advocacy Committee of Canadian Women in Medicine.

This is an SGEM Xtra episode based on an article by Dr. Cohen and Dr. Kiran published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ). The article was called Closing the gender pay gap in Canadian medicine.

Please listen to the SGEM podcast to hear Dr. Cohen answer five questions and discuss the issue of gender pay inequity.

Body of Evidence Podcast, September 19, 2023Radio/Podcast

URL: https://bodyofevidence.ca/trans-people-need-gender-affirming-care-with-michelle-cohen

Chris and Jonathan talk to Michelle Cohen, MD, CCFP, FCFP, an assistant professor at Queen University’s Department of Family Medicine and a staff physician at Lakeview Family Health Team. Dr. Cohen provides gender-affirming care and is here to dispel myths surrounding trans people, especially the panic around the mistaken idea that children are being rushed to transition. If you have a child who is questioning their gender identity, make sure to listen to this episode before reading what the media typically reports on trans issues.

#NoMoreManels and the ‘Med Ed Pledge’

"That women will have the same opportunities as men"

No-cost contraception faces barriers of wellness influencers and social conservatives in Alberta

The wellness profiteers of vitual health care

Sex toys for sexual health

Why aren’t mainstream media holding fear-mongering MDs to account?

Being healthy is not the same as being virtuous

Ontario’s vaccine rollout confusion is a deliberate political tactic

Pain and Prejudice: A new book explores misogyny in health care

What the gender pay gap in medicine tells us about women's health

Medicine's bigotry and bullying problem

Why the abortion pill is more important than ever during the coronavirus

Coronavirus could decimate small and isolated communities in Nunavut

Lack of access to abortion in rural Canada severely limits its protection

We shouldn't wait for national pharmacare: We need universal contraception coverage now

Goop has exploited the medical establishment's failures on women's health

Why can naturopaths mislead the public about their credentials? Because no one bothers to stop them

Manitoba's health minister avoids accountability on abortion by punting questions to another ministry

Most Canadian gun deaths are suicides. We need tighter controls

War mentality, and laws, required to protect medical staff

Don’t insult health care workers by calling COVID-19 response ‘hysteria’

It took two years to close a cruel loophole in palliative care, even with legislative consensus. Why?

Anxieties over COVID-19 and possible PPE shortages prompting some health care workers to draft wills

Family doctors want term 'family medicine' protected legally

Employers should have to foot the bill for mandatory sick notes

Breaking Canadians: Health Care, Advocacy, and the Toll of COVID-19
by Editor: Nili Kaplan-Myrth, Contributor: Michelle Cohen
University of Toronto Press
March 1, 2024
9781487548124

The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on people worldwide. The death tolls, the economic disruptions, the impact on our children’s education, and the extended periods of social and physical distancing have left us feeling demoralized, exhausted, angry, and burned out.

Breaking Canadians brings together health care experts, community advocates, and average citizens from across Canada to offer a unique analysis of the first three years of the COVID-19 pandemic. The book explores the fragmentation of Canada’s health care system, the growth of social inequalities, and the impact of colonialism, racism, ableism, and ageism on the well-being of people in this country. It sheds light on the people our health care system undervalues and overlooks, including nurses, social workers, and essential caregivers.

An important collection of stories, insights, cautionary tales, and calls for action, Breaking Canadians is also a harbinger of what is to come if we do not learn, change our trajectory, and fix what is broken.

Violating Nature’s health laws: how an eccentric early 20th century influencer set the stage for the COVID infodemic

by Michelle Cohen

Published by Healthy Debate

October 11, 2022

Gender segregation, pay inequity. Understanding the ‘pink-collar’ tier in medicine

by Michelle Cohen

Published by Healthy Debate

June 19, 2022

Medical abortion is an essential service during the pandemic

by Michelle Cohen

Published by Canadian Family Physician

April 1, 2021

Closing the gender pay gap in Canadian medicine

by Michelle Cohen, Tara Kiran

Published by Canadian Medical Association Journal

August 31, 2020

End immigration detention: an open letter

by Michaela Beder, Michelle Cohen, Katrina Hui, Carolina Jimenez

Published by The Lancet

July 12, 2018

Biography

Dr. Michelle Cohen is a family physician at the Lakeview Family Health Team and the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit. She holds a medical degree from the University of Toronto. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Queen's University and sits on the Ontario Medicial Association Women's Committee

Dr. Cohen has written articles for CBC, Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, Maclean's, Healthy Debate, Chatelaine and other publications. She speaks widely on issues relating to primary care, rural health, women's health, equity in medicine and pseudoscience and health communication.

Expertise

  • pseudoscience & health communication
  • health policy
  • women's health
  • equity in health care
  • rural health
  • primary care & family medicine