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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

I don’t know who makes up the “career finder” self assessments that high school guidance counselors use, but I think they’re rubbish; medicine didn’t come up on my list. I headed off to business school. As a kid in the 80’s I blame too much Street Legal – business suits and office politics had such [...]