War stories: O, do not wish one more!
The problem with working during COVID is these are not abstract ideas: bed closures, people missing vital surgeries and treatments, refugees pouring across the border, escaping exploitation and mistreatment. These are people with names, and faces, beating hearts, bellies that move under my examining hand, tears and frightened smiles.
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8/27/2024
Things that could fall apart
When I was a medical student back in the late '70s, the gay people in my class kept a very low profile. They lived in fear of being outed which could have terrible consequences harassment, blackmail even being dismissed from the program.
8/13/2024
Medical Student Disease changes with age, but doesn’t disappear
Being a physician is itself a risk factor for health anxiety. Before I started in medicine, I had the general obliviousness towards health which is the natural state of the average 22-year-old. Soon, however, that vanished.
7/15/2024
You seem discouraged
For the majority of my practice, I've cared for marginalized populations, knowing everyone found this kind of work as rewarding as I do. But there consensus used to be that it needed to be done. Today, in Quebec, the message seems to be, if you don’t speak French, please die.
