Today marks nine years since my dad’s passing. The anniversary of his passing, is hitting differently this year because in a few days, it will have been nine months since I also lost my mom. Continue reading It’s weird not having parents anymore. . .
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It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here, and now that I’ve started to practice as a licensed Family Physician, there have been numerous things I’ve been musing about. One of those things is change. . . Continue reading Change, change, change, change. . .
This is something I hear often and consistently, everywhere I go across Canada. . . Continue reading We need Family Doctors here. . .
It’s been a while since I last shared any of my musings on medicine. I thought as I enter my final year of residency training and count down the months before I can practice independently, it’s time for an update. I still remember vividly how it felt a year ago to get used to introducing myself to patients as ‘Dr. Martineau’ . . . Continue reading Entering the phase of R2 aka Second Year Residency
It was late evening before the Christmas break, when I got a message from my good friend Corin Raymond telling me he really wanted me to check out this song he was working on about having a conversation with his doctor. I was on my sixth 26-hour call shift in 2.5 weeks and told him that when I received the message.
Continue reading “The First Hundred Years are the Hardest . . . borrowed this line from a Corin Raymond song”
When I started med school, I quickly realized I had no idea how to study. Courses where you had to memorize a bunch of factoids had never been my forte nor of much interest to me in undergrad, and they weren’t really a thing in grad school. I excelled in math and advanced courses that required reasoning, analysis, applied logic, etc. When I was younger, … Continue reading Med School Notes by Musicians
I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting on the recent recognition of police misconduct and brutality in the context of what happened to George Floyd and the #BlackLivesMatter protests. It’s been absolutely horrifying to see what’s happening in the US, and the degree to which the police have been attacking peaceful protestors and escalating protests into violent confrontations. At first, there seemed to be a … Continue reading If you think Police Brutality doesn’t happen here, you’re wrong.
These are strange times we are in. I appreciate what my friend Mariel Buckley just said while she streamed some songs today and that was she encouraged us to ‘Marinate in the weirdness’. Continue reading Life in the times of Covid – Day 22 of Isolation
Why Jim Button is an amazing human, and why you should help him fund a Chair for Pediatric Psychosocial Oncology! If you do only one thing today . . . Continue reading It take’s a Village. . .
Starting medical school, I was nervous about a lot of things. I worried about being squeamish and my reaction to procedures, surgery and cadavers. . . Continue reading Personal Firsts in Medicine
Alanna Martineau 