Category: Student Humanities Blog

May 28 2019
Student Humanities Blog

arachnoid aneurysm

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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.       there used to...
May 20 2019
Student Humanities Blog

Washed Away

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The following was anonymous from a medical student at University of Toronto.       I was swept into this world, Feet taken out from under me My trickling stream...
Apr 18 2019
Student Humanities Blog

In the Blink of an Eye

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Parisa Selseleh is a medical student in the Class of 2022 at the University of Manitoba     Dear you, I must be honest, I was not looking forward to...
Apr 11 2019
Student Humanities Blog

An insidious niceness

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 Austin Lam is a medical student at the University of Toronto.   In a session on narrative medicine in medical school, a clip from the film Wit (2001) was shown in which Vivian...
Apr 08 2019
Student Humanities Blog

Stroked

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Tharshika Thangaraa is a fourth year medical student at the University of Ottawa.     The sound of her alarm pulsated through her room. Startled, she awoke. It was just another...
Apr 01 2019
Student Humanities Blog

Right heart strain

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Arnav Agarwal is an Internal Medicine Resident (R1) at the University of Toronto. Check back the last Thursday of each month for a new featured piece as part of his series (Doc Talks:...
Mar 21 2019
Student Humanities Blog

Tight Rope

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Grace Dao  is a second year medical student at Dalhousie University.   From the beginning of medical school, we are taught about balance –the balance between each individual’s autonomy and...
Mar 09 2019
Student Humanities Blog

Reminders

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Arnav Agarwal is an Internal Medicine Resident (R1) at the University of Toronto. Check back the last Thursday of each month for a new featured piece as part of his series (Doc Talks:...
Mar 06 2019
Student Humanities Blog

Beyond Us

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 Shez Kassam is a medical student in the class of 2019 at the university of Alberta       Across, eye to eye Armchair, arm’s length   The heart suffers—pathologic...