Category: Student Humanities Blog

Dec 16 2020

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...

Sep 14 2020

COVID-19, Student Humanities Blog

COVID-19 and loss of control

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My new identity is the shunned “other”.

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,...

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...

Feb 14 2020

Student Humanities Blog

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...