Author: CMAJ

Sep 08 2017

Patients' blog

Sicker than I’d ever been before: a patient’s experience of sepsis

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Ray Schachter is a lawyer in Vancouver. He is on the Executive Committee of the Global Sepsis Alliance and Canadian Sepsis Foundation   In March 1996, I was a healthy,...

Jun 14 2017

Reflections

Crossroad of patient safety and medical malpractice in Canada

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Dr. Santanu Chakraborty is Associate Professor in Radiology in The University of Ottawa and Radiology Quality Officer at The Ottawa Hospital. Patient safety is taking its rightful place in the...

Jun 08 2017

Reflections

The art of medical imaging

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Kari Visscher is an artist.  She’s also a physician. And she’s turning a promising career as a radiologist into a work of art. The fifth year radiology resident sees art...

Nov 15 2016

Student Humanities Blog

Constriction

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Jeremy Zung University of Toronto Class of 2016 Taut sheets as cotton fetters In curtained cloister bare Enshroud the shrivelled limbs Whose fingers flex in fetal curl ‘Round liquid sleep....

Oct 23 2016

Student Humanities Blog

Mending the Souls of Our Seniors

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Daniel (Yiqiao) Wang University of Ottawa Class of 2019 “Medical professionals concentrate on repair of health, not sustenance of the soul”. Atul Gawande’s recently published book, Being Mortal, discusses the...

Oct 16 2016

Student Humanities Blog

1:15 am

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Anonymous It’s 1:15 am as I write this. I’m tired. I’ve worked just under 17 hours today, but I can’t sleep. Too bad. I will start at 8 am again...

Sep 18 2016

Student Humanities Blog

My first visit at a family shelter: a social pediatrics experience

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Daniel Bierstone University of Toronto Class of 2016 On the first day of my Social Paediatrics elective, I accompanied a nurse on a visit to a family shelter. I entered...

Aug 14 2016

Reflections, Student Humanities Blog

her name is Gaia.

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Adriano Mollica University of Toronto Class of 2019 I look at you, and I wish there was some sort of incantation to whisper that could string together all the fickle...

Aug 06 2016

Student Humanities Blog

Dangers

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Kevin Dueck Class of 2016 Western University (Behind a curtain in the Emergency Department) He grabbed me… how could I be so stupid. Grabbed my ponytail… cries and… and slammed...

Aug 02 2016

Editors' Blog

From data-driven illustrations to gamified neuron mapping

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Émilie Lacharité is Digital Content Editor at CMAJ and a graduate of the Biomedical Communications program at the University of Toronto I attended the Association of Medical Illustrators’ (AMI) conference...

Jul 25 2016

Student Humanities Blog

More than medicine

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Mary Koziol McGill University Class of 2018 “MARRRIEEEEEEEE!” These enthusiastic greetings solidify Tuesday as my favourite day of week. As I enter the classroom, several of the girls come running...

Jul 19 2016

Student Humanities Blog

Transit

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Jason Gencher University of Toronto Class of 2018 An etiolated octogenarian calls out, Barely audible beyond his room. He beckons for a small sponge To wet his cracked blue lips....

Jun 27 2016

Student Humanities Blog

A Honeyed Voice

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Rabea Parpia University of Toronto Class of 2019 His voice is warm and soft, each sentence running into the next, broken up only by gravelly laughter and the occasional cough....

Jun 19 2016

Student Humanities Blog

for Cleopatra.

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Adriano Mollica University of Toronto Class of 2019 the crevices in my hands could never course deep enough to hold all the life that has moved between your synapses and...