A Saturday in Toronto, Slowly
Coffee at Kensington, an hour in a bookshop, and the case for an unstructured day.
Dr. Henry Ukpeh
Pediatrician · Child Health Advocate
Published August 2, 2026 · 6 min read
A physician's week is scheduled to the minute. Saturday is deliberately not, and it has become the most productive day I have.
The unstructured hour
Almost every idea I have written down in the last decade arrived in an hour I had not planned. I now defend those hours the way I once defended clinic slots.
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