Sep
14
2020
COVID-19 and loss of control
My new identity is the shunned “other”.
Category: Student Humanities Blog
Aug
14
2020
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Jun
14
2019
A testament to youth? Reflections on the Polio era in Alberta
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Geraldine Huynh is a medical student in the Class of 2020 at the University of Alberta. After “catching the flu” and falling down in his own home, Marion Chomik distinctly remembers in...