Category: Student Humanities Blog

Feb 16 2019
Student Humanities Blog

The real doctor

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 Sarah Silverberg is an R1 in OBGYN at UBC and an intern at St. Paul’s Hospital.   Please let me take your history. I know the triage nurse and the...
Feb 12 2019
Student Humanities Blog

A Shipwrecked Midnight

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 Ashleigh Frayne is a Family Medicine (R1) at the University of British Columbia.”       The pavement darkens as the chill of the night settles Stretched across the lap...
Feb 07 2019
Student Humanities Blog

Voiceless

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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:...
Jan 25 2019
Student Humanities Blog

egophony, and other sounds

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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.       murphy’s sign yellow on the horizon with...
Jan 15 2019
Student Humanities Blog

A song of mental health

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Abhishek Gupta is a medical sub-intern with CAMH, who graduated from Windsor University School of Medicine.       Hear Ye, Hear Ye A song of mental health for all, In dark...
Jan 03 2019
Student Humanities Blog

Ripe

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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.   The heart is open and I wonder if my...
Dec 29 2018
Student Humanities Blog

The other side of the table

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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:...
Dec 20 2018
Student Humanities Blog

Heavy secret

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Noémie La Haye-Caty is a medical student in the Class of 2019 at McGill University   Katy is sleeping on the exam table. She came in looking tired, talking with a weak voice,...
Dec 10 2018
Student Humanities Blog

Prom king

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Sahil Sharma is a medical student in the Class of 2020 at Western University   It was my first week on service for internal medicine as a third-year clerk. I had finally begun to...
Dec 03 2018
Student Humanities Blog

Defining global health

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Ruth Habte is a medical student in the Class of 2019 at the University of Manitoba   I have been privileged to take part in implementing global health programming while in medical school,...
Nov 29 2018
Student Humanities Blog

Practicing medicine with care

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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:...
Nov 26 2018
Student Humanities Blog

Book review: First Year Out

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Maggie Hulbert is a medical student in the Class of 2020 at Queen’s University   First Year Out: A Transition Story (Singing Dragon, 2017) Earlier this fall, over the course of a tense...