Tag: medical humanities

Mar 30 2021

COVID-19, Reflections, Student Humanities Blog

A Tale of Two Pandemics

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I can’t help but recognize that it is racism – not race – that is the real culprit behind the increase in morbidity and mortality.

Sep 14 2020

COVID-19, Student Humanities Blog

COVID-19 and loss of control

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My new identity is the shunned “other”.

Sep 01 2020

Reflections

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

Reflections, Student Humanities Blog

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

COVID-19, Reflections, Student Humanities Blog

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

COVID-19, Reflections, Student Humanities Blog

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

COVID-19, Reflections, Student Humanities Blog

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

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.

Mar 10 2020

Reflections

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

Primary Care

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

Reflections

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

Primary Care

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

Student Humanities Blog

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

Patients' blog, Reflections

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...