Stories In Family Medicine
 | | Welcome! These are our stories about the meaning of being a family physician, and the contributions of family medicine and family physicians to the history of medicine, health care and life in Canada. Supported by AMS and the CFPC Research and Education Foundation. |
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AMS / Mimi Divinsky Award Winners
Chang, Ruoh-Yeng; 2014. She was 20 years old with a new palliative diagnosis of cancer. The wedding was called off because she didn't want him to be a...
2014
Pelletier, Jacques; 2014. Me voilà sur le tarmac. N’Djamena, Tchad, février 2008. L’Airbus m’y a déposé avec quelques membres de la Croix-Rouge française avec qui je partagerai ma première...
2014
Aulakh, Amandev; 2014. The Contact Precautions sign halted us with bold lettering as we approached the patient’s room. Almost automatically, our hands...
2014
Hudon, Catherine; 2013. "When I grow up, I’m going to be a doctor just like my dad!” That was the...
2013
Lemos, Vivienne; 2013. Her tiny fingers circled my index finger, surprisingly firm in their grip. I watched the...
2013
Kmet, Alexander; 2013. “Is there anything else you need tonight?” I asked her from the doorway to her emergency room. The dark inside her room was…
2013
Caldwell, Paul; 2012. 2:30 am phone call; pregnant, only 28 weeks, cervix fully dilated. “Come quickly!” I jolt out of...
2012
Ching, Jody; 2012. While on general hospital call one evening, I was asked to lay eyes on an elderly lady who was in particularly bad shape. She had just…
2012
Laplante, Patrice; 2012. I had been told; I had read as much and I didn't quite believe it. Yet the wisteria ended up gaining the upper hand and irreversibly...
2012
L’Ecuyer, Geneviève; 2011. My biggest challenge, when I started my family medicine residency, was managing my...
2011