Tag: emergency department

May 11 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

Normalizing deviance

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I have “grown up” in the era of hallway medicine. During COVID-19 the deviance has been unnormalized.

Oct 05 2019

Reflections

Open encounters in crowded ERs

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Sarina Lalla is a medical student in class of 2020 at McMaster University.       When I was on an emergency medicine rotation, I asked for a room to tell...

Jul 08 2019

Reflections

How one great team’s victory set another one in motion

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Anser Daud is a medical student at the University of Toronto. He enjoys writing about health advocacy and human rights issues.   “We’re dealing with a situation that’s not far from...

Jul 30 2018

Student Humanities Blog

VSA

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Jenna Webber is a Public Health & Preventive Medicine Resident (R2) at Queen’s University   It’s 1 AM. The call comes in: VSA en route. Your team assembles. Efficient, empathic, skilled — the team...

Apr 30 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Book review: Life on the Ground Floor

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Maggie Hulbert is a medical student in the Class of 2020 at Queen’s University   Life on the Ground Floor (Doubleday Canada, 2017) Dr. James Maskalyk describes emergencies “as a sign of life...

Mar 16 2017

Doctor Mom

Doctor Mom’s son learns that contact with the health care system is best avoided

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Doctor Mom is a physician who lives in Ontario*   It’s March Break, which means last chance to do winter activities for some families in Canada. Unfortunately, I’m not Winter...

Nov 16 2016

Podcasts

Podcast: A resident treats a terminally ill patient in the emergency department

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Barbara Sibbald, News and Humanities editor for the Canadian Medical Association Journal, reads the CMAJ Humanities Encounters article “First, do no harm” (subscription required). The article is written by Dr....

Aug 06 2016

Student Humanities Blog

Dangers

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Kevin Dueck Class of 2016 Western University (Behind a curtain in the Emergency Department) He grabbed me… how could I be so stupid. Grabbed my ponytail… cries and… and slammed...

Feb 23 2015

Editors' Blog, Podcasts

Author interview podcast: follow-up for ED chest pain

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This week: Interview with Dr. Dennis Ko, interventional cardiologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto and senior scientist with the Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences. Dr. Ko and colleagues...