ps. What is it with the Killam??

Schroeder is one of the more imaginative characters and probably the least tethered to reality. He exists in an alternate dimension that is filled with music and his main link to our own dimension is through his toy piano. In some ways, he shares many similarities to Linus. Both are intelligent, introspective thinkers with abnormal [...]

OR How I Learned to Love/Tolerate Medicine
I spent first semester feeling guilty. What was I doing here? Anatomy wasn’t my cup of tea, Metabolism and Function scared the bejeezus out of me. Long story short: I was not having fun. And I felt guilty because isn’t everyone in medicine supposed to [...]

Preface: This post is actually my humanities elective essay. I thought I’d throw it up here in case any one is interested in the subject of empathy in medicine, or curious about what it’s like to jump into a white coat after being a patient for most of your living memory.
I have vivid childhood memories [...]

I don’t know about everybody else, but I felt kinda weird sitting in that communications session on Friday afternoon. You see, my undergrad was a double major in psychology and philosophy, so I spent plenty of time hearing about Sigmund Freud, unconscious emotions, and all that stuff that was taught to us on Friday. The [...]

I do not understand why it is being said that almost every assignment/ project we have is a ”make work” project. I have not yet felt that way about anything we have to do. I have wanted to be a doctor for as long as I can remember, and worked extremely hard to reach that [...]

I think this title line is a set up for disappointment. I mean seriously, what was I thinking stealing the tag line from one of the best journalistic minds (at least in my opinion) of our time. I blame it on the fever dreams. But anyway, no time to dwell on these types of thoughts, [...]

Aaron invited me to post something for discussion on your blog - it looks great, by the way! You’re doing some super-interesting writing here.
I happened across this column on the CBC website the other day, and I thought of you all, since we just covered resource allocation and spent some time talking about [...]

I can’t remember who first posted the idea of people from our class taking part in the Bluenose marathon this May 18, but they must have been very convincing as I decided to sign up to do the full marathon. I did run the half marathon in 2005 which was my previous longest distance. Since [...]

So during the past reading week, as part of my Humanities-in-medicine elective in trauma systems/emergency, I had the chance to look at pre-hospital care. Basically I spent the week doing ambulance ride-alongs with paramedics. Aside from the ungodly hours that we started day shifts (5:30am), it was such a great experience. I had the chance [...]