Apr 30 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Book review: Life on the Ground Floor

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Maggie Hulbert is a medical student in the Class of 2020 at Queen’s University   Life on the Ground Floor(Doubleday Canada, 2017) Dr. James Maskalyk describes emergencies “as a sign of life taking...

Apr 26 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Cultural safety: xenophobia within the same cultural group

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Jaya Tanwani is a medical student in the Class of 2020 at the University of Toronto   An interesting experience I had with cultural safety was when I volunteered at medical camps in rural...

Apr 25 2018

Reflections

Sex, Syphilis, and The Taboo of Money in Medicine

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Mark Soth is a mid-career academic intensivist in Ontario, Canada. He blogs as the Loonie Doctor about physicians’ personal finance   We really have come a long way as a...

Apr 24 2018

Reflections

The 20th anniversary of a vaccine debacle: time to reflect on how far we have come

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Natasha Sarah Crowcroft is Chief of Applied Immunization Research at Public Health Ontario and a Professor at the University of Toronto in Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology and the Dalla Lana...

Apr 23 2018

Student Humanities Blog

When art and science meet

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Stéphanie Benoît is a medical student in the Class of 2018 at the University of Ottawa   AiLi Wang is a medical student in the Class of 2018 at the University of Ottawa   What is medicine? It...

Apr 19 2018

Student Humanities Blog

To the parents of a clinical clerk: thank you

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Yara Abou-Hamde is a medical student in the Class of 2019 at Western University   Dear Mom and Dad, When you arrived in Canada eleven years ago with four young children, you knew you had...

Apr 18 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Seeking Executive Committee nominations for the new Canadian Association for Health Humanities

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The Canadian Association for Health Humanities, which will be launched at the Creating Spaces Conference in Halifax, April 27–28, 2018, is seeking nominations for the inaugural Executive Committee. Positions include...

Apr 17 2018

Reflections

“Nothing”

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Magbule Doko is a family physician in Windsor, Ontario, and an adjunct professor at The University of Western Ontario     Our decision, firm and dedicated To become doctors: a...

Apr 16 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Recollecting an ethics of care: Heideggerian questions in medicine

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Austin Lam is a medical student at the University of Toronto   I remember the final oral examination for my Phenomenology course at McGill University. I was nearing completion of my undergraduate degree, yet...

Apr 12 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Memoirs of a lamenting mind

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Sunjit Parmar is a medical student in the Class of 2019 at the University of British Columbia     A withering mind: As this body crawls forth to die My soul still marches...

Apr 10 2018

Reflections

The returns of smarter spending on food in health care

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Howard Abrams is the Director of Openlab, a design and innovation shop located at the University Health Network (UHN) in Toronto   Andre Picard recently proposed in the Globe and Mail:...

Apr 09 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Book review: The Unravelling

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Maggie Hulbert is a medical student in the Class of 2020 at Queen’s University   The Unravelling (Broadview Press, 2017) Graphic novels have emerged from the field of medical humanities as a powerful...

Apr 05 2018

Reflections

When the doctor says sorry – do we know if apology laws work?

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Paul G. Thomas is Professor Emeritus of Political Studies at the University of Manitoba. From 2004 to 2007 he served as the founding board chair for the Manitoba Institute for...

Mar 27 2018

Reflections

Junk science: a running hypothesis

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Lawrence Loh is an Adjunct Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto   I took up run-commuting following the birth of my first...