Tag: compassion

Mar 16 2021

COVID-19, Reflections

Reflections from “the other side”

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As an "experienced" patient, I felt the absence of a loved one. The vulnerability I felt lying alone and in pain is amplified several-fold for patients far sicker and more vulnerable...

Feb 09 2021

COVID-19, Doctors' health, Reflections

The fallacy of balance in medicine

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Consider the harm done by entangling wellness with professionalism.

Feb 05 2021

COVID-19, Reflections

So how does it end?

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I needed a day to begin to grieve.

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.

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.

Aug 14 2020

COVID-19, Medical Dispatches

Virtual baptism in the PICU – compassion during a pandemic

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Nothing could stop the determination of this mother on a mission.

Jan 03 2019

Student Humanities Blog

Ripe

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Kacper Niburski is a medical student in the Class of 2021 at McGill University. He is also the CMAJ student humanities blog editor.   The heart is open and I wonder if my...

Nov 29 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Practicing medicine with care

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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:...

Nov 16 2018

Dear Dr. Horton

Dear Dr. Horton #5: Demoralized

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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,...

Nov 12 2018

Student Humanities Blog

This is how a physician should listen

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Giuliana Guarna is a medical student in the Class of 2019 at McMaster University   Knock, knock. I pulled back the large door and stepped into the room. It was early in the...

Nov 02 2018

Dear Dr. Horton

Dear Dr. Horton #4: Burning Out

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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 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,...

Jun 25 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Book review: Taking Turns

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Maggie Hulbert is a medical student in the Class of 2020 at Queen’s University   Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 (Penn State University Press, 2017) The HIV/AIDS Care Unit (Unit...

May 17 2018

Student Humanities Blog

White vans, white coats, and the human desire for meaning

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Imaan Javeed is a medical student at the University of Toronto   On Monday, April 23, while driving on Yonge Street near Finch Avenue in Toronto, it’s alleged that Alek Minassian...