Jul 08 2019

Reflections

How one great team’s victory set another one in motion

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Anser Daud is a medical student at the University of Toronto. He enjoys writing about health advocacy and human rights issues.   “We’re dealing with a situation that’s not far from...

Jul 04 2019

Student Humanities Blog

Pulmonary stenosis

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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.     plastic plants in the...

Jun 26 2019

Reflections

Looking closely at the link between IVF treatment and childhood cancers

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Caitlin Dunne is a Co-Director at the Pacific Centre for Reproductive Medicine (PCRM) in Vancouver and a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia.   A new study...

Jun 24 2019

Primary Care

The Future of Climate Change: The HEART Initiative

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Imagine yourself as a family physician seeing a 68-year-old woman with type 2 diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hypertension, and chronic knee pain. While these medical concerns are well-managed, things...

Jun 14 2019

Student Humanities Blog

A testament to youth? Reflections on the Polio era in Alberta

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Geraldine Huynh is a medical student in the Class of 2020 at the University of Alberta.   After “catching the flu” and falling down in his own home, Marion Chomik distinctly remembers in...

Jun 11 2019

Reflections

Canada’s national pharmacare plan: Reason for hope or more questions?

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Nigel Rawson is President at Eastlake Research Group   The 2019 federal budget announced that the federal government will take initial steps towards implementing national pharmacare to improve the affordability...

Jun 04 2019

Reflections

Victory of an anti-vaxxer mother: A case that should not set precedent

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Noni MacDonald is a Professor at Dalhousie University Shawn Harmon is a Policy Analyst at Dalhousie University   A recent family arbitration case that saw the arbitrator side with a mother...

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 25 2019

Student Humanities Blog

Becoming the doctor the patient in me wished for: my cancer journey

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Raafia Siddiqui is second year medical student at McMaster University.   The surgeon asked me for the second time, “So are you here alone?” “Yes”, I answered, this time a...

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...

May 17 2019

Reflections

Someone call the real doctor

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Mark Speechley is a Professor of Epidemiology at Western University   The age-old debate over who should be addressed as ‘doctor’ lives again in recent letters to CMAJ. Of course,...

May 03 2019

Dear Dr. Horton

Med Life with Dr. Horton & guests Alan Alda and Dr. Deepu Gawda — Feeling disconnected from patients

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In this next “Med Life with Dr. Horton” podcast, Dr. Jillian Horton talks with both Dr. Deepu Gawda and actor Alan Alda. In the first segment, Dr. Horton and guest...

May 02 2019

Student Humanities Blog

Taking up space: what a medical student and an aspiring advocate share

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Vivian Gu is a medical student in the Class of 2020 at the University of British Columbia   Recently I had the opportunity to attend the Commission on the Status...

Apr 29 2019

Reflections

Pregnancy loss: lessons from ‘Roma’

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Philippe Barrette is a psychotherapist, workplace facilitator and former Assistant Clinical Professor at McMaster University, Department of Psychiatry. David Streiner is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural...