Category: Student Humanities Blog

Jun 22 2015
Student Humanities Blog

If Dr. Seuss Were My Doctor

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Kayla Simms University of Ottawa Class of 2016 Upon being accepted to medical school in 2012, I received a special edition of “Oh, the Places You’ll Go” from a personal...
Jun 15 2015
Student Humanities Blog

Split Selves

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Vivian (Jiaji) Xia McMaster University Class of 2017 “Alright, the last four, come with me.” It is clinical skills at the General and we mechanically split ourselves into neat packages...
Jun 06 2015
Student Humanities Blog

Inverno

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Alexander Morzycki Dalhousie University Class of 2018 Inverno was inspired by someone very close to me who once struggled with depression. Autumn leaves have all fallen now The skies are...
May 27 2015
Student Humanities Blog

A Meeting with Poverty

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Benedict Darren McMaster University Class of 2017 In the clinic, we are trained to meet poverty with empathy. We are taught to identify it, to map its course as part...
May 15 2015
Student Humanities Blog

Gas and Guidance

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Laura Zuccaro University of Ottawa Class of 2017 I’m stuck. I’m in a car stopped in the middle of an intersection.  Colourful blurs race by me, shaking the car.  This...
May 12 2015
Student Humanities Blog

On the Map: Arts & Health BC

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Posted on behalf of On the Map: Arts & Health in BC, a provincial not-for-profit promoting engagement with the arts for health, healing & wellbeing.  When “art” and “health” collide...
May 09 2015
Student Humanities Blog

Believe it or not

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Chanel Paré-Bingley University of Ottawa Class of 2015 I used to be that kid who couldn’t fit through the crack in the fence, then the teen known as “bubble butt”...
May 01 2015
Student Humanities Blog

A Caregiver Speaks Out

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Peter Farag University of Toronto Class of 2017 The Determinants of Community Health course provides medical students at the University of Toronto the opportunity to observe how various agencies promote...
Mar 12 2015
Student Humanities Blog

Lingua Medica

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Christopher William Blake McMaster University Class of 2015 Before I arrived at medical school, I imagined I would learn many things.  I would study physiology and pathophysiology, treatment and etiology,...
Mar 05 2015
Student Humanities Blog

Let Me Go

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Scott Odorizzi Western University Class of 2015 Two broad men in uniform approach me. They look tense. A collection of tools hangs from their waists. I notice the shape of...
Feb 25 2015
Student Humanities Blog

A Time for Death

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Daniel Paluzzi Queen’s University Class of 2016 I entered the room with the idea I’d be their support, the sturdy foundation upon which to rest in their moment of need....