Category: Reflections

Sep 09 2020

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 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 Junghan, Maroof Khalid, Maham Khalid, and Samveg Shah are 3rd year medical students...

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...

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 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.