Category: Reflections

Dec 04 2020

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...

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,...