The Big Moments

Rheanna Bulten, c2022 “We have your MRI scan results. I have some news for you, and I think it might be best if you sit down.” Growing up, I’d heard people say that the big moments in their lives – moments where everything changed – they remembered with crystal clarity. I remember every detail of […]

Mr. Nobody in Crisis

Michael Vu, c2022 I recently began actually enjoying movies again after a years-long hiatus. I feel like I’m going to risk exile for saying this, but the fact is that I have gotten into the unfortunate habit of paying for Netflix while not actually having time to use it. Lately, I’ve been “rescued” – you […]

Humans of Mac Med: Jhanahan Sriranjan

Interviewed by Claire Lee, c2022 Describe yourself in one sentence: Someone who is always all in. If I commit to something, I make sure I am fully committed to it. And I try to apply this to everything in life– from hobbies, to fitness, my own health, and all the organizations I am a part […]

3 Lessons Self-Isolation Has Taught Me

Claire Lee, c2022 Most of us have never experienced anything like the pandemic the world has been hit with. Scientists made it a habit to warn us that another pandemic was to inevitably occur in the next decade, but most took these warnings as prophecies of a distant future that we could not be bothered […]

Things to Do During Quarantine When You’re Not on Zoom

Jessica Chee, c2022 These are truly unprecedented and scary times, but there are many ways to maintain a regular schedule and keep moving onwards and upwards. Below I present to you seven ideas on how to occupy your time during this quarantine when you’re not on Zoom calls! 1. Learn new recipes I know quite […]

COVID19 is a menacing matador

Malavan Ragulojan, c2022 This article was written on March 15th, 2020 What a week for global markets. On March 14th, the longest bull market run in American history finally came to a dramatic close as the WHO declared COVID19 a pandemic on March 11th, and President Trump announced the virus to be a national emergency. […]

How to Find a Hobby When You’ve Never Had One

Noam Raiter, c2022 It was the first week of medical school. I was eager, bright-eyed, and incredibly grateful to be sitting in a lecture hall filled to the brim with other like-minded students. They tell you once you get into medical school, you’re set… They tell you It’s basically impossible to fail out and you […]

The Diagnosis of Death

Janna Malone, c2022 I don’t remember the first time I told someone they were going to die. To the outsider, this seems like something that would be impactful enough to leave an everlasting mark. But it was something I knew I would have to do every single day; maybe I’d made a subconscious decision early […]

Humans of Mac Med– Simon Farquharson

By: Kay Wu (c2022) Q: Who are you? A: I consider myself a citizen of the world. I don’t really consider myself Canadian, or Brazilian even though I was born in Brazil, or Peruvian even though I’m half Peruvian, or Scottish though my last name is Scottish. It’s weird—in Canada, people think I’m Brazilian; in […]

CAR T-Cell Therapy Comes to Hamilton Health Sciences

By: Michael Coomber (c2022) In 2017, the FDA approved a new class of onco-immunotherapies for the treatment of B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia and B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas. Initial trials of these CAR T-cell therapies produced remarkable rates of remission, often in treatment-resistant individuals, despite causing life-threatening adverse effects in a subset of patients. Advancements in CAR […]