Mar 22 2020

COVID-19, Editors' Blog

Politicians should stick to their lane, and realities of social distancing

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Politicians should not tweet unsubstantiated medical information.

Mar 21 2020

COVID-19, Primary Care, Reflections

COVID-19 will reveal our true values

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Governments come and go but physicians in this country hold fast to their end of a social contract that includes a duty to care.

Mar 19 2020

COVID-19, Editors' Blog

SARS, Big Macs, mom’s quarantine and coyotes

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Monday March 16th felt like day 1 of COVID in Canada. The first workday of mass changes to work, school and play.

Mar 18 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

COVID-19: Crisis reflections from the front line

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My past experiences working with the Canadian Armed Forces taught me a great deal about coping with crises, stress, confusion, guilt, loss and grief.

Mar 17 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

The viral spread of racism

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I was 16 years old when SARS hit Hong Kong. At the time, the virus was far from my mind despite my being a high school student in a predominantly...

Mar 15 2020

Primary Care

The observer vs the imposter

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Vlad Evdaev is a third year medical student at the University of British Columbia.   “It won’t be long before they find out that I am a fraud, or that...

Mar 10 2020

Reflections

The Case for Narrative Medicine

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Michael Pratte is a second-year medical student at the University of Ottawa.   Around the moment my scalpel cut into human flesh for the first time, it occurred to me that...

Mar 10 2020

Editors' Blog

Supporting meaningful patient and public involvement in research

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Braden O’Neill is a family doctor and Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. Peter Gill is a Clinician-Investigator in the Division...

Mar 03 2020

Reflections

What My Brain Tumor Taught Me: The Role My Medical History Plays in My Medical Career

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Noam Raiter is a first-year medical student at McMaster University   I have wanted to be a doctor for as long as I can remember, and I’ve been a patient...

Feb 26 2020

Reflections

Letter to Class of 2020

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Mei Wen is a class of 2019 from University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine. Twitter: @meiwwen.   If there is one thing I learned from going through the Canadian Resident Matching...

Feb 22 2020

Primary Care

Why do we expect patients to rely on memory alone? Receiving written instructions at the doctor’s office

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Saba Shahab is a third year medical student at Western University.   How many patients remember every advice shared by their physician at a clinic visit? How often do patients...

Feb 18 2020

Reflections

Evolution of Canadian medicine with Dr. Douglas Bocking

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Roger Hudson is a doctoral student studying Neuroscience at Western University. Vasiliki Tellios is a Ph.D. candidate in Neuroscience at Western University.     Canadian medicine has experienced great shifts...

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...

Feb 12 2020

Reflections

Patient access to essential rare disorder drugs: The long and winding road

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Nigel Rawson is President of Eastlake Research Group   Donna Lawrence is Director, HTA and Health Economics, with PDCI Market Access Inc.   You’ve been diagnosed with a rare disorder....