Author: CMAJ

Feb 26 2018
Student Humanities Blog

Book review: The Remedy

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Maggie Hulbert is a medical student in the Class of 2020 at Queen’s University   The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Healthcare (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2016) In the introduction to...
Feb 22 2018
Student Humanities Blog

The soloist

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Ronald Leung is a medical student in the Class of 2018 at McMaster University   “I think I’m dying,” one of my patients says to me one day. We stop,...
Feb 15 2018
Student Humanities Blog

The blue backpack

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Dominic Wang is a medical student in the Class of 2021 at Western University   My usual Sunday morning plans to catch up on last week’s lectures were mixed with a dash of...
Feb 12 2018
Student Humanities Blog

A goal

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Kevin Dueck is a Family Medicine Resident (R1) at McMaster University who graduated from medical school at Western University in 2016       To be content for my family my patients myself. A...
Feb 08 2018
Student Humanities Blog

The final project

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Zeenat Junaid is a medical student in the Class of 2020 at Bahria University in Pakistan   “How do you make leukemia visible?” Jo Spence asked herself. A British photographer and educator, Spence...
Feb 05 2018
Student Humanities Blog

Bedside manner

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Kayla Simms is a Psychiatry Resident (R1) at McMaster University who graduated from medical school at the University of Ottawa in 2017   Compartmentalization is to medical knowledge as bread is to butter: patients,...
Feb 01 2018
Student Humanities Blog

Gratitude

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Shawn K is a Psychiatry Resident (R4) at the University of Ottawa who graduated from medical school at Western University in 2014   This poem was performed at the 2017 Canadian Festival of Spoken...
Jan 29 2018
Student Humanities Blog

Book review: Medicine, Unbundled

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Maggie Hulbert is a medical student in the Class of 2020 at Queen’s University   Medicine Unbundled: A Journey through the Minefields of Indigenous Health Care (Heritage House, 2017) Imagine working in a...
Jan 22 2018
Student Humanities Blog

Overdosed

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Usman Khan is a medical student in the Class of 2019 at the University of Ottawa Tharshika Thangarasa is a medical student in the Class of 2019 at the University of Ottawa...
Jan 08 2018
Student Humanities Blog

The end of the long adolescence

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Sterling Sparshu is an Early-Career Physician who graduated from medical school and completed their residency at the University of Calgary in 2017   As I graduate from my residency program, I...
Jan 04 2018
Student Humanities Blog

Mount Everest

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Eleni Levreault is a medical student in the Class of 2019 at the University of Ottawa       They said medicine, when you begin, Is like staring Mount Everest in...