Category: Reflections

Mar 08 2021

Reflections on a pan-Canadian round table on COVID-19 vaccination

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Our national conversation with Prime Minister Trudeau and Minister Hajdu felt like a balm against the burnout that so many healthcare workers and others are struggling with right now

Mar 04 2021

COVID-19, Reflections

Adapting research to a virtual format during COVID-19

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Thoughtful planning delivered success when transitioning to a virtual meeting format due to COVID-19.

Feb 25 2021

Reflections

When physicians’ families give too much

11 Comments

Every medical family’s elasticity and willingness keeps the medical system running.

Feb 11 2021

Primary Care, Reflections

More than “just a family doctor”

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To be a family physician you need to be time-efficient yet comprehensive, a humble team player and a fierce advocate, an expert in communication, with a working knowledge of…well... a...

Feb 09 2021

COVID-19, Doctors' health, Reflections

The fallacy of balance in medicine

12 Comments

Consider the harm done by entangling wellness with professionalism.

Feb 05 2021

COVID-19, Reflections

So how does it end?

3 Comments

I needed a day to begin to grieve.

Dec 22 2020

Reflections, Student Humanities Blog

Stories of Comfort

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Stories of comfort – three short powerful poems tell you the whole story.

Dec 16 2020

Reflections, Student Humanities Blog

Reading Around the Mask

3 Comments

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...

Dec 13 2020

Reflections

Compassion: our superpower for dealing with discriminatory patients

11 Comments

Having a better understanding of the human being behind the hurled epithet is important.

Dec 04 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

Losing touch

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COVID-19 has fundamentally disrupted the touch we share with loved ones and the opportunities for provider-patient touch in the medical setting.

Nov 30 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

“Sorry, no visitors allowed”

4 Comments

COVID-19 visitor restriction policies have taken away a basic tenet of patient-centered care and family-centered care.

Nov 16 2020

Reflections

Questioning a father’s integrity because of his origin

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During my daughter's admission, I asked my wife to hide that I was a doctor working in the same complex, to avoid having to endure repeated insulting suggestions that I...

Nov 13 2020

Reflections