Wood, Lorraine; 2008. It wasn't even 6:30 am when the answering service called. "Dr. W, I have a Dr. J on the phone for you". It was a call I partly expected, but not...
2008
Neimanis, Ieva; 2010. The difficult hours came, hope faded. He would not recover. His life was ending. I took his hand and spoke of walking together again, as we had three years ago, in the countryside of his...
2010
Owen, Martin; 2012. Pain. Pain is a word. Pain is an expericence. Pain is a symptom associated with numerous...
2012
Mahadevan, Varagunan; 2013. When I looked at the rear view mirror my heartbeat just skipped. There was flashing police...
2013
Dafoe, Joan; 2012. Alma's kitchen is a warm, comfortable place, where I feel at ease. The space is almost completely taken up by a large...
2012
Olsen, Nancy; 2009. Alone. We all hate that word whether we are physicians or patients. ...
2009
Feldman, Perle; 2009. “Could you take on a patient for me?” Cecile Rousseau asked. Cecile is a psychiatrist who specializes in post-traumatic stress syndrome, mostly...
2009
Mark, Patricia; 2014. He died. Why? It took a while to work that out because he never came to see me. He never walked through my door and asked for help...
2014
Goel, Ritika; 2008. I met Claudia within the first month of my residency at St. Michael’s Hospital. Being the new resident on my block rotation meant that every...
2008
Eaton, Bill; 2012. I got a taste of bitter medicine early this January. I was home alone with a cold: I didn’t want to spread it around. While at the computer I suffered a...
2012