Category: Student Humanities Blog

May 28 2018

Book review: Doing Harm

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Maggie Hulbert is a medical student in the Class of 2020 at Queen’s University Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick (HarperOne/HarperCollins...

May 24 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Minutes, milligrams, and millilitres

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Arjun Sharma is a medical student in the Class of 2019 at the University of Toronto Picture a physician on a hospital ward at the day’s peak. He jumps from one task to...

May 21 2018

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Is the Canadian medical education system broken on both ends?

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Betel Yibrehu is a medical student in the Class of 2020 at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, DC. She is interested in medical...

May 17 2018

Student Humanities Blog

White vans, white coats, and the human desire for meaning

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Imaan Javeed is a medical student at the University of Toronto On Monday, April 23, while driving on Yonge Street near Finch Avenue in Toronto, it’s alleged that Alek Minassian...

May 14 2018

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Outside the walls of the hospital: reflections on doing an MPH during residency

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Ameer Farooq is a General Surgery Resident (R3) at the University of Calgary who completed his Master of Public Health at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health...

May 07 2018

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Still healing

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Sarah Hanafi is a medical student in the Class of 2018 at the University of Alberta In healthcare, we sometimes hear the saying, “I went home thinking about that patient.” I thought I...

May 03 2018

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Apprehensive about the future of the spirit-healer’s fragile stone

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Jonathan Oore is a medical student in the Class of 2019 at Dalhousie University Artist’s Statement for Milgwija’sit Puoin An’stawe’g Wuguntew or Apprehensive about the future of the spirit-healer’s fragile stone This...

Apr 30 2018

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Book review: Life on the Ground Floor

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Maggie Hulbert is a medical student in the Class of 2020 at Queen’s University Life on the Ground Floor(Doubleday Canada, 2017) Dr. James Maskalyk describes emergencies “as a sign of life taking...

Apr 26 2018

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Cultural safety: xenophobia within the same cultural group

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Jaya Tanwani is a medical student in the Class of 2020 at the University of Toronto An interesting experience I had with cultural safety was when I volunteered at medical camps in rural...

Apr 23 2018

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When art and science meet

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Stéphanie Benoît is a medical student in the Class of 2018 at the University of Ottawa AiLi Wang is a medical student in the Class of 2018 at the University of Ottawa What is medicine? It...

Apr 19 2018

Student Humanities Blog

To the parents of a clinical clerk: thank you

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Yara Abou-Hamde is a medical student in the Class of 2019 at Western University Dear Mom and Dad, When you arrived in Canada eleven years ago with four young children, you knew you had...

Apr 18 2018

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Seeking Executive Committee nominations for the new Canadian Association for Health Humanities

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The Canadian Association for Health Humanities, which will be launched at the Creating Spaces Conference in Halifax, April 27–28, 2018, is seeking nominations for the inaugural Executive Committee. Positions include...

Apr 16 2018

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Recollecting an ethics of care: Heideggerian questions in medicine

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Austin Lam is a medical student at the University of Toronto I remember the final oral examination for my Phenomenology course at McGill University. I was nearing completion of my undergraduate degree, yet...

Apr 12 2018

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Memoirs of a lamenting mind

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Sunjit Parmar is a medical student in the Class of 2019 at the University of British Columbia A withering mind: As this body crawls forth to die My soul still marches...