CMAJ Blogs

Jul 20 2020

Becoming

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None of us started medical school anticipating that becoming physicians would mean entering into a workplace that months prior told us to leave for our own safety.

Jul 19 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

COV-EID: Navigating socially-distant festivities

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I worked last Christmas and New Year, which allowed me to bank my holidays until Eid so that I could fly back home and celebrate with family

Jul 13 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

Dawn and dusk: a tale of two deliveries

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After a few minutes, he started to breathe on his own. I breathed as well. A heavy breath, exaggerated under my mask.

Jul 09 2020

COVID-19, Patients' blog, Reflections

A patient’s experience of COVID-19

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The last breath a person takes before death is an exhalation, to expire. I was trying so hard. I was so tired of trying. I said to myself, “Could I...

Jul 03 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

Phone call

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Their mother is not going to make it and I am the person who is sharing this information.

Jun 25 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

Lessons from the bedside

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The hospital is on lockdown due to COVID-19, so visitors are not permitted. He has had no connection with the outside world other than health care personnel.

Jun 24 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

Pandemic therapy

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I began to imagine the birds as my co-therapists, conveying an implicit message of hope, continuity, and purpose, more potent than anything I could put into words.

Jun 19 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

How one small town tackled the COVID-19 pandemic and won

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One factor contributing to low acute care volumes was the lack of spread among our elderly population

Jun 03 2020

Editors' Blog

Let statements of solidarity on social media not be the end of allyship

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I and other white allies need to hashtag less, listen more, do more and talk about it less, and be willing to just sit with a whole lot more discomfort.

May 29 2020

COVID-19, Reflections, Tara Kiran

Ramping up in-person office visits in primary care in the aftermath of COVID-19

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How do we balance benefits and risks? How can we assess the impact of decisions to ramp up in-person care so we know whether we need to pull back again?

May 28 2020

COVID-19, Reflections