Tag: death and dying

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.
Dec 21 2018
Dear Dr. Horton

Dear Dr. Horton #7: Mourning

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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 01 2018
Student Humanities Blog

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Beatrice Preti is an Internal Medicine Resident (R2) at Queen’s University       The list is long, but I know your name Each day before, its spot was the same Second from...
May 31 2018
Student Humanities Blog

Corpse

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Beatrice Preti is an Internal Medicine Resident (R1) at Queen’s University       It was the strangest of days when I met him first Everything jumping from awful to worse People were...
Mar 15 2018
Student Humanities Blog

Death in medical training

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Sahil Sharma is a medical student in the Class of 2020 at Western University   Nearing the end of my first year in Medical School, I am amazed by the wealth of knowledge acquired...
May 13 2016
Medical aid in dying, Reflections

A healthy death

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Trevor Hancock is a professor and senior scholar at the University of Victoria’s school of public health and social policy   When Canada’s Supreme Court struck down the law prohibiting...