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Lounge – Hallway Press

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

Lounge Issue 1 — Spring 2026, showing the cover by Kaitlyn Hwang and an interior spread from 'The Canada Health Act as a Sacred Doctrine'

In this issue

Performing Medicine As a community paediatrician, parents bring their children to me for a variety of issues. By Nadia Aumeerally The Blueprint We Never Drew We do not have an imaging problem. We have a design problem. By Judy Rowe The Canada Health Act as a Sacred Doctrine Even the noblest ideas ossify when treated as unchangeable doctrine. By Jacob Cookey 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. By Andrew Lodge The Atomic Unit of Healthcare Strip away the layers of technique and technology, and what remains is irreducible: one person suffering, another responding. By Daniel Rasic

Lounge is published quarterly by Hallway Press.