Tag: medical humanities

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 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...
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,...
Oct 26 2019
Reflections

Asking for a referee letter

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Due to the sensitivity of the post, the author wished to publish the following piece anonymously.  Dear potential Referee, My name is Jane Doe, medical student and residency applicant. So...
Oct 16 2019
Student Humanities Blog

Illness as a metaphor: book review

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Dennis Wesley is an independent educational researcher, whose interests include STEM, the Humanities, and health sciences–especially interdisciplinary practices and methods.     Written in 1978, Sontag’s long form essay ‘Illness...
Sep 25 2019
Reflections

Three perspectives make a whole

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Akina Fay is a medical student in the Class of 2020 at McGill University.       Days after my fourteenth birthday, I was diagnosed with a rare brain malformation...
Sep 15 2019
Reflections, Student Humanities Blog

Mastectomy

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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.     The following was written...