Category: COVID-19

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.

Jul 21 2020

COVID-19, Medical Dispatches

Virtual family-centred rounds: a collaborative necessity during COVID-19 and beyond

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Traditionally, family-centred rounds take place in the patient’s room. During the pandemic, however, congregating in patients' rooms for rounds is no longer advisable

Jul 20 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

Becoming

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None of us started medical school anticipating that becoming physicians would mean entering into a workplace that months prior told us to leave for our own safety.

Jul 19 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

COV-EID: Navigating socially-distant festivities

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I worked last Christmas and New Year, which allowed me to bank my holidays until Eid so that I could fly back home and celebrate with family

Jul 13 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

Dawn and dusk: a tale of two deliveries

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After a few minutes, he started to breathe on his own. I breathed as well. A heavy breath, exaggerated under my mask.

Jul 09 2020

COVID-19, Patients' blog, Reflections

A patient’s experience of COVID-19

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The last breath a person takes before death is an exhalation, to expire. I was trying so hard. I was so tired of trying. I said to myself, “Could I...

Jul 03 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

Phone call

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Their mother is not going to make it and I am the person who is sharing this information.