CMAJ Blogs

Dec 22 2020

Reflections, Student Humanities Blog

Stories of Comfort

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Stories of comfort – three short powerful poems tell you the whole story.

Dec 18 2020

Student Humanities Blog

Cinnamon

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You can see how my heart pulls, myofibrils tensing and releasing to the beat of my Bapuji’s tabla

Dec 16 2020

Reflections, Student Humanities Blog

Reading Around the Mask

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Beatrice Preti is a PGY-4 in medical oncology at Western University. I never anticipated the challenge of not being able to see others’ faces. A.N. All names have been removed...

Dec 13 2020

Reflections

Compassion: our superpower for dealing with discriminatory patients

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Having a better understanding of the human being behind the hurled epithet is important.

Dec 04 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

Losing touch

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COVID-19 has fundamentally disrupted the touch we share with loved ones and the opportunities for provider-patient touch in the medical setting.

Nov 30 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

“Sorry, no visitors allowed”

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COVID-19 visitor restriction policies have taken away a basic tenet of patient-centered care and family-centered care.

Nov 16 2020

Reflections

Questioning a father’s integrity because of his origin

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During my daughter's admission, I asked my wife to hide that I was a doctor working in the same complex, to avoid having to endure repeated insulting suggestions that I...

Nov 13 2020

Reflections

Nuclear disarmament for health: time to rejoice

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Doctors founded the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War in 1981

Nov 04 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

Telemedicine, autism spectrum disorder and difficult conversations: challenging the 10,000-hour rule

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I have sometimes left the Zoom meeting with a persistent draining feeling of inadequacy.

Oct 13 2020

Reflections

The system is me too…

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I am the family doctor of 550 patients who live in the Atikamekw community of Manawan. I want to tell them, "I believe you and I am so sorry."

Oct 08 2020

COVID-19

Should the MCCQE II exams go ahead?

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Public health is all about managing competing risks. What are the respective risks associated with holding the in-person exam or not holding it this year?

Oct 02 2020

Reflections

Distanced Solidarity

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Owen Dan Luo is a medical student in the Class of 2023 at McGill University. This year, we have all been dealt a blow Lives overturned by something...

Oct 01 2020

Reflections