Category: Reflections

Mar 24 2020

The potential role of unmatched Canadian Medical Graduates during a pandemic

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As we watch COVID-19 go viral on- and off-line, I, as an unmatched medical graduate, find myself both frightened and frustrated to watch our medical community call for help while...

Mar 21 2020

COVID-19, Primary Care, Reflections

COVID-19 will reveal our true values

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Governments come and go but physicians in this country hold fast to their end of a social contract that includes a duty to care.

Mar 18 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

COVID-19: Crisis reflections from the front line

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My past experiences working with the Canadian Armed Forces taught me a great deal about coping with crises, stress, confusion, guilt, loss and grief.

Mar 17 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

The viral spread of racism

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I was 16 years old when SARS hit Hong Kong. At the time, the virus was far from my mind despite my being a high school student in a predominantly...

Mar 10 2020

Reflections

The Case for Narrative Medicine

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Michael Pratte is a second-year medical student at the University of Ottawa. Around the moment my scalpel cut into human flesh for the first time, it occurred to me that...

Mar 03 2020

Reflections

What My Brain Tumor Taught Me: The Role My Medical History Plays in My Medical Career

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Noam Raiter is a first-year medical student at McMaster University I have wanted to be a doctor for as long as I can remember, and I’ve been a patient...

Feb 26 2020

Reflections

Letter to Class of 2020

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Mei Wen is a class of 2019 from University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine. Twitter: @meiwwen. If there is one thing I learned from going through the Canadian Resident Matching...

Feb 18 2020

Reflections

Evolution of Canadian medicine with Dr. Douglas Bocking

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Roger Hudson is a doctoral student studying Neuroscience at Western University. Vasiliki Tellios is a Ph.D. candidate in Neuroscience at Western University. Canadian medicine has experienced great shifts...

Feb 12 2020

Reflections

Patient access to essential rare disorder drugs: The long and winding road

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Nigel Rawson is President of Eastlake Research Group Donna Lawrence is Director, HTA and Health Economics, with PDCI Market Access Inc. You’ve been diagnosed with a rare disorder....

Feb 07 2020

Reflections

Is the process of funding Canadian scientific research failing to advance Nobel prize-worthy work?

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Ernest Cutz is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto, and a former senior pathologist in the Department of Paediatric Laboratory Medicine...

Feb 06 2020

Reflections

What we do

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Sujin Im is a family medicine resident R1 at University of Toronto. The morning after another 24-hour call shift at labor and delivery, I went for my routine rounding...

Jan 29 2020

Doctors' health, Reflections

Are physicians with burnout eligible for workplace-related compensation?

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Tara Riddell is a PGY4 resident in Psychiatry at McMaster University. Ana Hategan is an Associate Clinical Professor and Geriatric Psychiatrist in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University....

Dec 03 2019

Patients' blog, Reflections

The power of patient and caregiver partnership

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Maggie Keresteci is a caregiver to her sibling who lives with a life altering disease and is committed to advocating for solutions that will improve the lives of Canadian patients...

Nov 18 2019

Reflections

where roots end

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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. arachnoid aneurysm there used...