Aysha Martin

University of Calgary – Second Year Student
Calgary, Alberta

3382 Contributions

They said

They said stay inside, it will keep you safe.They said go home, assuming we had one. They said get online, it will be the same. They said stay inside, but some were not safe.

by Ravana Smith

Lost Things

I've lost myself many times, but I was always able to find her again. The last time I lost myself, however, was March of 2020, and I haven't been able to find her since.

by Lydia C. Rehman

The pandemic tales – striving through despair

When the pandemic began, I was finishing my third year at the University of Toronto. I had finally come out of my shell that I had been locked into for my first three years.

Fear of that life inside a bubble

Scary. If there is a word I could use to describe the way I felt when lockdown was first announced, it would be exactly that. Scary.

by Rebecca Kempe

The little things

This is the kind of poem you write when you don’t know what to write anymore, when hours feel like days and days feel like weeks and weeks feel like months. because you’re terrified, everyone is terrified and unsure of tomorrow/

by Sparsh Charaya

A message of appreciation

I came to the conclusion that COVID has had a very negative influence on our lives, but also some positive ones.

by Julia Smith

Fill in the funding gaps

I came to the conclusion that COVID has had a very negative influence on our lives, but also some positive ones.

by Ibrahim Birkawi

Reflection of the effects of the pandemic

The pandemic and has transformed me in ways that were mental, physical and emotional in nature.

by Katie Goldie

The gift of a better death

Canadians need universal and equitable access to high-quality palliative care. It’s time to talk about death and dying more openly and ask ourselves: What is a good death?

by Adam Pyle

Ontario service agreement adds new barriers to specialty care

A little-noticed change to the Physician Services Agreement between the provincial government and medical practitioners could leave Ontarians without a family doctor to face new barriers to care in a variety of specialty areas.

by Alykhan Abdulla Matthew Schurter

Dr. Pharmacist?

Pharmacists can prescribe medications for certain ailments in eight provinces with Ontario about to follow suit. But while pharmacists knowledge of medications is invaluable, are they diagnosticians?

by Peter Smith

Health care needs to work smarter, not harder

Canada’s health system is on life support, and those in positions of authority need to act now to bring it back to life with intelligence and compassion. `

by Liana Hwang

Over-the-counter ointments are ‘poison ivy in a tube’ for some, dermatologists warn

Canada’s most popular over-the-counter ointments for wound treatment are the most common medical substances causing allergic contact dermatitis, or ACD.

by Margaret McGregor Courtney Howard Amira Aker

Woefully inadequate: Dearth of funding for biomedical health research reflects our environmental racism

Biomedical research policy needs to begin addressing environmental racism and justice and expand funded research for climate change, environmental and planetary health.

by David Ponka

Even a child can see collaboration is essential to save the Canadian health-care system

Everything is related; solutions must once again be aligned, locally scaled and human centred. We need a more stable, unified approach in health care. We need more transformative models moving forward. Above all, we need primary care and public health to join forces to prepare us for the next big challenge – climate change.

by Mary Sco.

The war raging in your body: These little-known immune cells may prevent severe COVID

Infectious diseases were once the greatest threat to human survival. Today it is not necessarily the infection itself but rather the immune system’s response to the infection that dictates the survival of the fittest.

by Jennifer Wilson

Re-imagining global health care, person by person, mission by mission

Author and physician Jennifer Wilson reflects on the decision to offer her medical services in Northern Ghana and the writing of her book, Grant Us Tomorrow.

by Jennifer Wilson

Book excerpt: ‘Oh God. What am I doing here?’

An excerpt from Jennifer Wilson's book, Grant Us Tomorrow.

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