Category: Student Humanities Blog

Feb 14 2020

Addiction, Literature, and the Self: The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath

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Quinten Clarke is a 2nd year medical student at McMaster University. At once a memoir and critical exploration of the narratives around addiction and addiction recovery, Leslie Jamison’s 2018...

Jan 23 2020

Student Humanities Blog

Reflection on a multidisciplinary care team block

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Eitan Aziza is a second-year Internal Medicine resident at the University of Alberta. Medicine has become increasingly cognizant of the role of comprehensive and integrated care in keeping patients...

Jan 17 2020

Student Humanities Blog

The side effects of economic sanctions: the case of North Korea

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Vincent Soh is a 4th year medical student at University of British Columbia. I was born into the war— a war which has carried on for over fifty years. But...

Dec 23 2019

Student Humanities Blog

On call the night before christmas

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Ashleigh Frayne is a Family Medicine (R1) at the University of British Columbia. ‘Twas the night before Christmas, and I was on call, When I felt rather strange as...

Oct 16 2019

Student Humanities Blog

Illness as a metaphor: book review

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Dennis Wesley is an independent educational researcher, whose interests include STEM, the Humanities, and health sciences–especially interdisciplinary practices and methods. Written in 1978, Sontag’s long form essay ‘Illness...

Sep 15 2019

Reflections, Student Humanities Blog

Mastectomy

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Kacper Niburski is a medical student in the Class of 2021 at McGill University. He is also the CMAJ student humanities blog editor. Follow his writing instagram: @_kenkan. The following was written...

Jul 04 2019

Student Humanities Blog

Pulmonary stenosis

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Kacper Niburski is a medical student in the Class of 2021 at McGill University. He is also the CMAJ student humanities blog editor. Follow his writing instagram: @_kenkan. plastic plants in the...

Jun 14 2019

Student Humanities Blog

A testament to youth? Reflections on the Polio era in Alberta

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Geraldine Huynh is a medical student in the Class of 2020 at the University of Alberta. After “catching the flu” and falling down in his own home, Marion Chomik distinctly remembers in...

May 28 2019

Student Humanities Blog

arachnoid aneurysm

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Kacper Niburski is a medical student in the Class of 2021 at McGill University. He is also the CMAJ student humanities blog editor. Follow his writing instagram: @_kenkan. there used to...

May 25 2019

Student Humanities Blog

Becoming the doctor the patient in me wished for: my cancer journey

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Raafia Siddiqui is second year medical student at McMaster University. The surgeon asked me for the second time, “So are you here alone?” “Yes”, I answered, this time a...

May 20 2019

Student Humanities Blog

Washed Away

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Meghan Kerr is a medical student at University of Toronto. I was swept into this world, Feet taken out from under me My trickling stream no match For...

May 02 2019

Student Humanities Blog

Taking up space: what a medical student and an aspiring advocate share

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Vivian Gu is a medical student in the Class of 2020 at the University of British Columbia Recently I had the opportunity to attend the Commission on the Status...

Apr 18 2019

Student Humanities Blog

In the Blink of an Eye

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Parisa Selseleh is a medical student in the Class of 2022 at the University of Manitoba Dear you, I must be honest, I was not looking forward to...

Apr 16 2019

Student Humanities Blog

ventricular septal defect & overriding aorta

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Kacper Niburski is a medical student in the Class of 2021 at McGill University. He is also the CMAJ student humanities blog editor. Follow his writing instagram: @_kenkan. ventricular septal defect you...