Author: CMAJ

Sep 09 2020

Reflections

The Stoic Dichotomy of Control and the Medical Trainee

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Sorush Rokui is a 4th year medical student at the University of British Columbia.   Contrary to contemporary understanding of stoicism and the modern use of the adjective ‘stoic’, stoicism...

Sep 04 2020

COVID-19

The Ruby of Routine

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Dr. Ashnoor Nagji was trained in Family and Aboriginal Medicine at UBC. She serves as a Clinical Associate Professor for the Faculty of Medicine and an Associate Professor at the...

Sep 01 2020

Reflections

Two poems: “Strangers — Vicarious Lives”, “Entrance”

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Austin Lam is a medical student at the University of Toronto.   The following two poems are reflections on the nature of interpersonal understanding, relating to the patient’s encounters with health care professionals....

Aug 27 2020

Reflections

Broken Telephone

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Lorenzo Madrazo is a second-year Internal Medicine resident from Western University.     Hello, Your dad is in the hospital Confused. Probably an infection.   Hello He’s more Awake– Better...

Aug 14 2020

COVID-19, Reflections, Student Humanities Blog

Becoming a Pit Crew for Frontline Healthcare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Yousuf Ahmed, Syed Anser Daud, and Isra Hussein are 3rd year medical students from the University of Toronto.  John Kim, Maroof Khalid, Maham Khalid, and Samveg Shah are 3rd year medical...

Aug 11 2020

Reflections, Student Humanities Blog

A Reflection on the Changing Face of Medicine

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In my short tenure in the clinical setting, I have met patients who, before all else, will ask where I am from.

Aug 08 2020

COVID-19, Reflections, Student Humanities Blog

Viral Shedding

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Sumedha Arya is a hematology fellow at the University of Toronto. If the body is a vector for disease, Then what am I? Flesh on bone on flesh and bone,...

Aug 05 2020

COVID-19, Reflections, Student Humanities Blog

Looking into the Cinematic Mirror: Studying Outbreak Films during COVID-19

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Fear is a key element of this response and is influenced by cultural scripts, such as those perpetuated in films.

Jul 28 2020

COVID-19, Reflections, Student Humanities Blog

Birthday during COVID

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Kacper Niburski is a medical student in the Class of 2021 at McGill University* i do not wish to tell you that this is it all that is left when all is...

Jun 25 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

Lessons from the bedside

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The hospital is on lockdown due to COVID-19, so visitors are not permitted. He has had no connection with the outside world other than health care personnel.

Jun 24 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

Pandemic therapy

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I began to imagine the birds as my co-therapists, conveying an implicit message of hope, continuity, and purpose, more potent than anything I could put into words.

Jun 19 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

How one small town tackled the COVID-19 pandemic and won

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One factor contributing to low acute care volumes was the lack of spread among our elderly population

May 29 2020

COVID-19, Reflections, Tara Kiran

Ramping up in-person office visits in primary care in the aftermath of COVID-19

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How do we balance benefits and risks? How can we assess the impact of decisions to ramp up in-person care so we know whether we need to pull back again?

May 28 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

Family physician leadership in long-term care: COVID-19 success and a call to action

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I feel fortunate that our patients have been able to receive care by in large in their homes from their own family physician and care providers.