Category: Student Humanities Blog

Apr 19 2021

Reflections, Student Humanities Blog

The Personal Letter I Never Submitted

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I made a genuine decision to pursue ophthalmology because I decided late – not in spite of it.

Mar 30 2021

COVID-19, Reflections, Student Humanities Blog

A Tale of Two Pandemics

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I can’t help but recognize that it is racism – not race – that is the real culprit behind the increase in morbidity and mortality.

Mar 12 2021

COVID-19, Student Humanities Blog

Hello, 2021

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An entire revolution around the sun later, we are still here.

Jan 18 2021

Student Humanities Blog

Mass

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Satisfying to say, disturbing to hear. What is it? A term we use when we don’t know.

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 18 2020

Student Humanities Blog

Cinnamon

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You can see how my heart pulls, myofibrils tensing and releasing to the beat of my Bapuji’s tabla

Dec 16 2020

Reflections, Student Humanities Blog

Reading Around the Mask

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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...

Sep 14 2020

COVID-19, Student Humanities Blog

COVID-19 and loss of control

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My new identity is the shunned “other”.

Aug 14 2020

COVID-19, Reflections, Student Humanities Blog

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

Reflections, Student Humanities Blog

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

COVID-19, Reflections, Student Humanities Blog

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

COVID-19, Reflections, Student Humanities Blog

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

COVID-19, Reflections, Student Humanities Blog

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

Student Humanities Blog

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...