Category: COVID-19

Dec 04 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

Losing touch

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COVID-19 has fundamentally disrupted the touch we share with loved ones and the opportunities for provider-patient touch in the medical setting.

Nov 30 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

“Sorry, no visitors allowed”

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COVID-19 visitor restriction policies have taken away a basic tenet of patient-centered care and family-centered care.

Nov 04 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

Telemedicine, autism spectrum disorder and difficult conversations: challenging the 10,000-hour rule

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I have sometimes left the Zoom meeting with a persistent draining feeling of inadequacy.

Oct 08 2020

COVID-19

Should the MCCQE II exams go ahead?

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Public health is all about managing competing risks. What are the respective risks associated with holding the in-person exam or not holding it this year?

Sep 25 2020

COVID-19, Tara Kiran

The issue is not resilience

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Our system is strained and our force of will can’t keep it together.

Sep 14 2020

COVID-19, Student Humanities Blog

COVID-19 and loss of control

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My new identity is the shunned “other”.

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...

Aug 14 2020

COVID-19, Medical Dispatches

Virtual baptism in the PICU – compassion during a pandemic

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Nothing could stop the determination of this mother on a mission.

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 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...

Jul 27 2020

COVID-19, Medical Dispatches

Learning from a global pandemic

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The William Osler Health System’s Results Notification Project is an example of what effective communication and timely collaboration can achieve.

Jul 26 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

The effect of COVID-19 uniforms

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My title doesn’t matter here, only my presence, my ability to listen, empathize, contribute and think.