Category: Student Humanities Blog

Aug 22 2022

Student Humanities Blog

OPQRST

5 Comments

I decided to not let the hard structure of the words in my notebook direct me anymore.

Aug 17 2022

Student Humanities Blog

The human connection

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This had been a remarkable journey for me as well. The process of following a patient to recovery made me realize two important lessons.

Jul 26 2022

Student Humanities Blog

Reflections on the healing role of palliative care

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It was Mary's healing of the living that was especially needed.

Jun 20 2022

Student Humanities Blog

Off medicine, on Broadway: lessons about medicine in the theatre

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I didn’t expect that Broadway would be the place that I would ponder how practitioners of medicine are portrayed and the way diseases reflect our society.

Apr 13 2022

Student Humanities Blog

The fallacy of perfection

10 Comments

Your imperfections are not dirty secrets — they are a part of what makes you human.

Mar 08 2022

Student Humanities Blog

The person behind the patient

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Through his consistent love and active interest in life, he taught me to look for the person behind the patient...

Jan 31 2022

Student Humanities Blog

Losing my mother during medical school: A reflection

6 Comments

The essence of palliative medicine, or perhaps good medicine in general, is to simply be with.

Jan 25 2022

Student Humanities Blog

A CaRMS odyssey

7 Comments

It felt as though I had unwittingly begun an adult immigration experience where my future livelihood and success depended on nearly instantaneously adapting to a new culture and language.

Dec 17 2021

Student Humanities Blog

10:30

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Time is 10:30 And we are all for it

Dec 15 2021

Student Humanities Blog

The last spring

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As the wind blew a steady warm breeze through my helmet, I was reminded that in medicine, unlike in the spring-time year after year, there may not be an opportunity...

Nov 16 2021

Student Humanities Blog

Trauma: encountering the past in the present

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Heavy stillness permeated the room; no eye contact was made. Made sense to me, eyes convey the depth of the tragedy.

Nov 12 2021

COVID-19, Student Humanities Blog

A double take on anti-asian racism

5 Comments

I preferred “Shirley,” a name that was assigned to me by my first Canadian teacher because “my Chinese name was too difficult to pronounce.”

Sep 17 2021

Student Humanities Blog

The chapter after death

2 Comments

I think about him as I close my eyes at night, and again when I wake up at 4 am with a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach. 

Sep 13 2021

Student Humanities Blog

Is uncertainty a fate worse than death?

4 Comments

For many patients, the loss of control that follows a difficult diagnosis may perhaps supersede their fear of mortality.