I don’t normally tell many stories about the types of things I have seen while working as a paramedic, but this particular story does have a happy ending, is a little comical (well I think so anyways) and is somewhat relevant to the reproduction part of our current unit. I told part of this story [...]

I was thinking the other day about the alphabet. Actually I came to it in a somewhat roundabout way, but more on that in a second…
So we have an alphabet right? But what have we been doing to improve it? I’ll tell ya what. Nothing. We have had the same basic alphabet since….. well I [...]

This weekend the Bluenose Marathon was held and, as many of you are aware, a number of people from our class decided to train for this event. Our class had a good showing with representation in every distance category, and here is a list of those who participated.
5K – Mat Kiberd, John Morash, David Conrad, [...]

I forgot how good it feels to write. Not just a short little blog, or a journal entry, and no, not even those lovely papers that we all enjoy writing. I’m talking about writing a short story, something I used to do frequently when I was young, but somehow got out of the habit of [...]

Well the Bluenose Marathon is fast approaching (May 18) and I hope everyone is doing well with their training. Keep it up, we’re almost there. Myself, I am in the tapering down part of my training to ensure my legs have some time to recover before I have push myself that extra 10 km to [...]

ps. What is it with the Killam??

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 [...]