Oct 25 2018
Student Humanities Blog

Twenty-six-hour days

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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:...
Oct 22 2018
Student Humanities Blog

Suddenly

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Matthew Lee is a medical student in the Class of 2019 at Dalhousie University   I was totally unsure. Meeting a patient who knows they are going to die… wouldn’t it be intrusive,...
Oct 19 2018
Dear Dr. Horton

Dear Dr. Horton #3: Lone Wolf

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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,...
Oct 18 2018
Student Humanities Blog

Air and water

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Shubham Shan is a medical student in the Class of 2019 at the University of Toronto   She arrived on an inclined stretcher, grasping her Venturi mask like a child holding on to...
Oct 09 2018
Medical Dispatches, Reflections

A long way from home

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Alastair McAlpine is a fellow in paediatric infectious diseases at BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver   People sometimes ask me, “What’s the difference between medicine in Vancouver and medicine in...
Oct 05 2018
Dear Dr. Horton

Dear Dr. Horton #2: Procrastinator

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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,...
Oct 04 2018
Student Humanities Blog

The portrait

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Noren Khamis is a Family Medicine Resident (R1) at the University of Toronto       Early morning: the student comes by in a daze Disoriented in the hospital maze He’s frantic and...
Oct 01 2018
Student Humanities Blog

Blank space

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Beatrice Preti is an Internal Medicine Resident (R2) at Queen’s University       The list is long, but I know your name Each day before, its spot was the same Second from...