May 27 2015
Student Humanities Blog

A Meeting with Poverty

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Benedict Darren McMaster University Class of 2017 In the clinic, we are trained to meet poverty with empathy. We are taught to identify it, to map its course as part...
May 21 2015
Reflections

Home Birth: Dispatch from a Convert

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Lauren Bialystok is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Justice Education at the University of Toronto   I used to think of home birth as something vaguely counter-cultural. That’s...
May 21 2015
Reflections

Is Omar Khadr a threat to Canadians?

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Michael Clark is an Assistant Professor at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine   I think it is time that pediatricians and other physicians who care for children weigh in...
May 15 2015
Student Humanities Blog

Gas and Guidance

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Laura Zuccaro University of Ottawa Class of 2017 I’m stuck. I’m in a car stopped in the middle of an intersection.  Colourful blurs race by me, shaking the car.  This...
May 12 2015
Student Humanities Blog

On the Map: Arts & Health BC

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Posted on behalf of On the Map: Arts & Health in BC, a provincial not-for-profit promoting engagement with the arts for health, healing & wellbeing.  When “art” and “health” collide...
May 09 2015
Student Humanities Blog

Believe it or not

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Chanel Paré-Bingley University of Ottawa Class of 2015 I used to be that kid who couldn’t fit through the crack in the fence, then the teen known as “bubble butt”...
May 05 2015
Medical Dispatches

The birth lottery

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Simon Bryant is a Canadian Physician currently volunteering with MSF in the Mediterranean Editor’s note: This piece combines two of Simon’s blogs published on Médecins Sans Frontières’ staff blog ‘Moving...
May 03 2015
Editors' Blog

Sea Sick

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Barbara Sibbald is editor, News and Humanities, at CMAJ   Is Sea Sick a one-woman play or a live TED-esque talk? Hard to know, but harder still to care about...
May 01 2015
Student Humanities Blog

A Caregiver Speaks Out

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Peter Farag University of Toronto Class of 2017 The Determinants of Community Health course provides medical students at the University of Toronto the opportunity to observe how various agencies promote...