Sep
14
2020
COVID-19 and loss of control
My new identity is the shunned “other”.
Tag: medical humanities
Sep
01
2020
Two poems: “Strangers — Vicarious Lives”, “Entrance”
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Austin Lam is a medical student at the University of Toronto. The following two poems are reflections on the nature of interpersonal understanding, relating to the patient’s encounters with health care professionals....
Aug
11
2020
A Reflection on the Changing Face of Medicine
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In my short tenure in the clinical setting, I have met patients who, before all else, will ask where I am from.
Aug
08
2020
Viral Shedding
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Sumedha Arya is a hematology fellow at the University of Toronto. If the body is a vector for disease, Then what am I? Flesh on bone on flesh and bone,...
Aug
05
2020
Looking into the Cinematic Mirror: Studying Outbreak Films during COVID-19
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Fear is a key element of this response and is influenced by cultural scripts, such as those perpetuated in films.
Jul
28
2020
Birthday during COVID
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Kacper Niburski is a medical student in the Class of 2021 at McGill University* i do not wish to tell you that this is it all that is left when all is...
Jun
25
2020
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.
Mar
10
2020
The Case for Narrative Medicine
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Michael Pratte is a second-year medical student at the University of Ottawa. Around the moment my scalpel cut into human flesh for the first time, it occurred to me that...
Feb
22
2020
Why do we expect patients to rely on memory alone? Receiving written instructions at the doctor’s office
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Saba Shahab is a third year medical student at Western University. How many patients remember every advice shared by their physician at a clinic visit? How often do patients...
Feb
06
2020
What we do
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Sujin Im is a family medicine resident R1 at University of Toronto. The morning after another 24-hour call shift at labor and delivery, I went for my routine rounding...
Feb
02
2020
If Earth Was Our Patient
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Owen Dan Luo is a medical student in the Class of 2023 at McGill University. He is also a committee member on the Health and Environment Adaptive Response Task force (HEART) of the...
Dec
23
2019
On call the night before christmas
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Ashleigh Frayne is a Family Medicine (R1) at the University of British Columbia. ‘Twas the night before Christmas, and I was on call, When I felt rather strange as...
Dec
03
2019
The power of patient and caregiver partnership
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Maggie Keresteci is a caregiver to her sibling who lives with a life altering disease and is committed to advocating for solutions that will improve the lives of Canadian patients...
Nov
26
2019
Anonymity in surgery
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Ilana Birnbaum is a medical student in the Class of 2020 at the University of Toronto. This work represents some of my reflections during my 6 week Surgery rotation...