Category: Reflections

Dec 22 2020

Reflections, Student Humanities Blog

Stories of Comfort

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Stories of comfort – three short powerful poems tell you the whole story.

Dec 16 2020

Reflections, Student Humanities Blog

Reading Around the Mask

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Beatrice Preti is a PGY-4 in medical oncology at Western University. I never anticipated the challenge of not being able to see others’ faces. A.N. All names have been removed...

Dec 13 2020

Reflections

Compassion: our superpower for dealing with discriminatory patients

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Having a better understanding of the human being behind the hurled epithet is important.

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 16 2020

Reflections

Questioning a father’s integrity because of his origin

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During my daughter's admission, I asked my wife to hide that I was a doctor working in the same complex, to avoid having to endure repeated insulting suggestions that I...

Nov 13 2020

Reflections

Nuclear disarmament for health: time to rejoice

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Doctors founded the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War in 1981

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 13 2020

Reflections

The system is me too…

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I am the family doctor of 550 patients who live in the Atikamekw community of Manawan. I want to tell them, "I believe you and I am so sorry."

Oct 02 2020

Reflections

Distanced Solidarity

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Owen Dan Luo is a medical student in the Class of 2023 at McGill University.     This year, we have all been dealt a blow Lives overturned by something...

Oct 01 2020

Reflections

CMA Policy on equity and diversity in medicine encouraging for International Medical Graduates

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IMGs clearly face discrimination in the CaRMS Match

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 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...