Category: Student Humanities Blog

Jul 26 2018

One kidney for an entire family: my first-year patient

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Alexia De Simone is a medical student in the Class of 2021 at McGill University In our first year of medicine at McGill University, each student is paired with a member of...

Jul 19 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Challenge by example

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Mei Wen is a medical student in the Class of 2019 at the University of Toronto “Intersectionality” was always a term that I saw in academic discussions, but never something I consciously...

Jul 12 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Warmth as hostility in a cruel summer’s dream

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Sunjit Parmar is a medical student in the Class of 2019 at the University of British Columbia Warmth as hostility in a cruel summer’s dream: Surrounded by the thick, humid...

Jul 09 2018

Student Humanities Blog

To induce asystole as needed

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Michael Gritti is a medical student in the Class of 2019 at the University of Toronto “To induce asystole as needed.” Looking the decision in the face wasn’t as simple as...

Jul 05 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Book review: When Breath Becomes Air

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Dilshan Pieris is a second-year Masters Candidate in the Health Science Education program at McMaster University When Breath Becomes Air (Random House, 2016) When Breath Becomes Air begins with Dr. Paul Kalanithi’s...

Jul 02 2018

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How traveling has made me a better medical student

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Dalia Karol is a medical student in the Class of 2020 at the University of Ottawa “Why waste my summer travelling when I should be preparing for clerkship?” I have heard many...

Jun 25 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Book review: Taking Turns

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Maggie Hulbert is a medical student in the Class of 2020 at Queen’s University Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 (Penn State University Press, 2017) The HIV/AIDS Care Unit (Unit...

Jun 21 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Self-definition

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Laura Kim is a medical student in the Class of 2019 at the University of British Columbia I’m a 3rd year medical student. But I’m not just a medical student. Before August...

Jun 18 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Public response to Southeast Asian refugees in Canada (1979-1980): the legacy of private sponsorship and lessons for refugee health care

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Ruth Chiu is a medical student in the Class of 2018 at McMaster University From 1975 to 1980, over two million Vietnamese, Laotian, and Cambodian refugees fled from Communist states to refugee...

Jun 14 2018

Student Humanities Blog

The value of art in medical education

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Hassan Hazari is a medical student in the Class of 2020 at Queen’s University The inclusion of arts and humanities in medical curricula has been a standard part of...

Jun 11 2018

Student Humanities Blog

But neither stops the song

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Zeenat Junaid is a medical student in the Class of 2020 at Bahria University in Pakistan I checked his file again and looked up to see the patient with a tube hanging...

Jun 07 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Maud & Mulligan

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Corinne Boudreau is a medical student in the Class of 2019 at the University of Toronto In 2015, I moved from the tiny New Brunswick town of Sackville to...

Jun 04 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Strangers to friends: how do we build trust in medicine?

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Nauman Malik is a Radiation Oncology Resident (R1) at the University of Toronto As I finish my first year of residency in Radiation Oncology at the University of Toronto,...

May 31 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Corpse

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Beatrice Preti is an Internal Medicine Resident (R1) at Queen’s University It was the strangest of days when I met him first Everything jumping from awful to worse People were...