With debriefing frameworks, we can ensure that we, as well as our colleagues, remain of sound body and mind, particularly after distressing medical incidents. Only if we take care of ourselves, can we continue to care for the most vulnerable of patients, every day. We owe this not only to our patients, but also to ourselves and to our families and loved ones.
Dear future Doctor, If I may, I would like to endow you with a few pearls of wisdom, as you embark on this transformative journey. I pray that this will help mold you into the best physician you have the potential to become. After all, simply having potential does not suffice. You must know how ...
I’ve had the privilege of working with incredible mentors over the past few years. Each and every single one has gifted me with invaluable pearls of wisdom. For this, I am eternally grateful. Among these pearls, I now recognize, was always a common theme: It’ll all be OK in the end. One way or another, ...
Ms. K had recently arrived from a rural area in a West African country seeking asylum in Quebec, Canada. She was raised in an impoverished household with many siblings. At a young age she was married off to a man decades her senior. She felt trapped between providing her family with a source of income ...
I walk into the room and introduce myself. She is sitting across from me with her teenage daughter. She was last seen 3 months ago and has been in remission for over a year now. I explain that her lab results were normal so far. Some are pending. No recent imaging. “So, how are ...
It was a Wednesday morning. The air was crisp. The sun decided to grace us with its brilliance. I made my way to the emergency room where I was working for a two-week period on the cardiology consult service. There was much to learn and I relished every opportunity to hear a murmur, to help diagnose an NSTEMI, and to rush the patient to the cath lab for what I understood was a life-saving procedure. The learning experience was thrilling. My neurons were firing, happily.
I dream… of a world to which I would be proud to belong. A world where all human beings are one, united, to redefine humanity. A world where we do not distinguish, discriminate or classify people according to their religion, ethnicity, nationality, or political beliefs. A world where brotherhood and sisterhood is a common concept rejoiced ...
Hello Dr. H*, My name is S. Z. I am the Med-1 student you kicked out of the small group today for being 30 minutes late. The reason I was late was because the metro broke down (the yellow line and then the green line). However, you did not even give me ten seconds to ...
Dear Ms. N*, I wanted to stop by on Friday to talk to you about something after I gained the courage to actually speak up about it, but I couldn’t find you so I thought I’d send you this email. On Tuesday I was assigned to a staff who clearly was too busy and was not interested ...
