Tag: medical humanities

Aug 08 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

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...

Aug 05 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

Looking into the Cinematic Mirror: Studying Outbreak Films during COVID-19

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Rebecca Lumley is a medical student in the Class of 2021 at the University of British Columbia’s Island Medical Program.       While my third-year clerkship was on hold...

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. He is also the CMAJ student humanities blog editor. Follow his writing instagram: @_kenkan.     i do not wish...

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...

Nov 26 2019

Doctors' health

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...

Nov 14 2019

Reflections

Do I even like politics?

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Imaan Javeed is a medical student at the University of Toronto. Warming up my dinner in the microwave, I habitually open the YouTube app to see what’s going on in the world....

Nov 09 2019

Primary Care

Ready

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Jovana Milenkovic is a PGY2 in Pediatrics at the University of Calgary. Ready is what I was. A week of what should have been pure relaxation on the beaches of...

Oct 30 2019

Reflections

All the anatomy she taught

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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. Follow his writing instagram: @_kenkan.     a voice from mine,...