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 24 2018

Reflections

Book review: Are You The F**king Doctor?

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Pat Rich is an Ottawa based medical writer and editor.   Cometh the hour, cometh the man. It would be the very height of pretentiousness to apply this phrase to...

Dec 21 2018

Dear Dr. Horton

Dear Dr. Horton #7: Mourning

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Welcome to this week’s edition of Dear Dr. Horton. Send the anonymous questions that keep you up at night to a real former Dean of Medical Student Affairs, Dr. Jillian Horton,...

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 18 2018

Reflections

Prescribing cannabinoids for pain is a challenge

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Hillel M. Finestone is a Physiatrist at the Elisabeth Bruyere Hospital and Professor, Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Ottawa.   My 52-year-old patient took his BP at a...

Dec 13 2018

Student Humanities Blog

You’re my first Indigenous trainee

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Curtis Sobchak is a medical student in the Class of 2019 at the University of Toronto   It is well-known that workplaces strive for diversity and inclusion. Studies have shown that diversity improves...

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 07 2018

Dear Dr. Horton

Dear Dr. Horton #6: Twilight

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Welcome to this week’s edition of Dear Dr. Horton. Send the anonymous questions that keep you up at night to a real former Dean of Medical Student Affairs, Dr. Jillian Horton,...

Dec 06 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Prescription: a healthy dose of disruption

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Shaun Mehta is an Emergency Medicine Resident (R4) at the University of Toronto   In elementary school, I always dreaded bringing my report card home. My grades were good, but the teachers’ comments...

Dec 04 2018

Reflections

Echoes in the operating theatre

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Keegan Guidolin is a General Surgery resident at the University of Toronto Han Yan is a Neurosurgery resident at the University of Toronto     Much attention has been paid of...

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...