Category: Student Humanities Blog

Dec 07 2017
Student Humanities Blog

In the face of death

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Noren Khamis is a medical student in the Class of 2018 at the University of British Columbia   Long before starting medical school, I wondered how I would react to the...
Dec 04 2017
Student Humanities Blog

Holding fast

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Grace Zhang is a medical student in the Class of 2019 at Queen’s University       [For my Grandmother] we don’t talk much these days (which is mostly my fault,...
Nov 30 2017
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Collateral

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Sarah Chauvin is a medical student in the Class of 2018 at the University of Toronto   Collateral. Collateral. Collateral. Three weeks in a psychiatric Emergency Department, and I have more...
Nov 27 2017
Student Humanities Blog

Basic structures

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Jonathan Oore is a medical student in the Class of 2019 at Dalhousie University   Symmetry is integral to life on earth. So too is asymmetry. The human body’s organization...
Nov 20 2017
Student Humanities Blog

Cinders

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Prasham Dave is a medical student in the Class of 2018 at the University of Ottawa       Sunken eyes my burden and a blazing smile my shield, My patient...
Nov 17 2017
Student Humanities Blog

On humility

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Sondos Zayed is a medical student in the Class of 2018 at McGill University   Time and time again residents tend to give us, medical students, the same piece of invaluable advice:...
Nov 15 2016
Student Humanities Blog

Constriction

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Jeremy Zung University of Toronto Class of 2016 Taut sheets as cotton fetters In curtained cloister bare Enshroud the shrivelled limbs Whose fingers flex in fetal curl ‘Round liquid sleep....
Oct 23 2016
Student Humanities Blog

Mending the Souls of Our Seniors

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Daniel (Yiqiao) Wang University of Ottawa Class of 2019 “Medical professionals concentrate on repair of health, not sustenance of the soul”. Atul Gawande’s recently published book, Being Mortal, discusses the...
Oct 16 2016
Student Humanities Blog

1:15 am

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Anonymous It’s 1:15 am as I write this. I’m tired. I’ve worked just under 17 hours today, but I can’t sleep. Too bad. I will start at 8 am again...
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...