Feb 07 2020

Reflections

Is the process of funding Canadian scientific research failing to advance Nobel prize-worthy work?

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Ernest Cutz is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto, and a former senior pathologist in the Department of Paediatric Laboratory Medicine...

Feb 06 2020

Reflections

What we do

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Sujin Im is a family medicine resident R1 at University of Toronto.   The morning after another 24-hour call shift at labor and delivery, I went for my routine rounding...

Feb 02 2020

Primary Care

If Earth Was Our Patient

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Owen Dan Luo is a medical student in the Class of 2023 at McGill University. He is also a committee member on the Health and Environment Adaptive Response Task force (HEART) of the...

Jan 29 2020

Doctors' health, Reflections

Are physicians with burnout eligible for workplace-related compensation?

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Tara Riddell is a PGY4 resident in Psychiatry at McMaster University. Ana Hategan is an Associate Clinical Professor and Geriatric Psychiatrist in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University....

Jan 23 2020

Student Humanities Blog

Reflection on a multidisciplinary care team block

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Eitan Aziza is a second-year Internal Medicine resident at the University of Alberta.   Medicine has become increasingly cognizant of the role of comprehensive and integrated  care in keeping patients...

Jan 17 2020

Student Humanities Blog

The side effects of economic sanctions: the case of North Korea

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Vincent Soh is a 4th year medical student at University of British Columbia. I was born into the war— a war which has carried on for over fifty years. But...

Dec 23 2019

Student Humanities Blog

On call the night before Christmas

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Ashleigh Frayne is a Family Medicine (R1) at the University of British Columbia.   ‘Twas the night before Christmas, and I was on call, When I felt rather strange as...

Dec 20 2019

Holiday Reading

HOLIDAY READING – The search for the perfect song for CPR 

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Martin Kaminski is a resident in internal medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a clinical fellow in medicine at Harvard Medical School Peter Kaminski is an advanced heart...

Dec 18 2019

Holiday Reading

HOLIDAY READING – The twelve days of Grants-mas: a rapid qualitative review

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Christopher Miller is an Investigator at the VA Boston Healthcare System Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR), and an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the Harvard Medical School...

Dec 03 2019

Patients' blog, Reflections

The power of patient and caregiver partnership

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Maggie Keresteci is a caregiver to her sibling who lives with a life altering disease and is committed to advocating for solutions that will improve the lives of Canadian patients...

Nov 26 2019

Doctors' health

Anonymity in surgery

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Ilana Birnbaum is a medical student in the Class of 2020 at the University of Toronto.   This work represents some of my reflections during my 6 week Surgery rotation...

Nov 18 2019

Reflections

where roots end

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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.     arachnoid aneurysm there used...

Nov 14 2019

Reflections

Do I even like politics?

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Imaan Javeed is a medical student at the University of Toronto. Warming up my dinner in the microwave, I habitually open the YouTube app to see what’s going on in the world....

Nov 09 2019

Primary Care

Ready

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Jovana Milenkovic is a PGY2 in Pediatrics at the University of Calgary. Ready is what I was. A week of what should have been pure relaxation on the beaches of...