in CBC News, February 1, 2018
Author: admin
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Students Delve into Cancer Experience, With Patients as Teachers
How can doctors limit patient anxiety before surgery? What are the lasting impacts of surgery on quality of life? What can doing art teach medical students about health care? A new program at the University of Toronto aims to answer these questions by bringing together future physicians and patients willing to share their experiences with cancer.
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“The Patient as Teacher” in St. Michael’s Hospital Newsroom
October 5, 2017 — Dr. Jory Simpson says he can teach medical students how to become doctors.
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HANIYA KHAN
PERSPECTIVES
Over the course of my surgery rotation, I had the privilege to be involved in the care of patients during some particularly intense, powerful, and moving moments. During this period, I had the opportunity to understand the surgical experience from the patient’s perspective and the perspective of their families. In my conversations with patients and families, I learned that the journey to and from surgery is filled with a diversity of experiences. There are moments when patients and families are together and thus share the experience, developing a collective understanding of the process. There are also critical moments at which the paths of patients and families diverge, resulting in distinct experiences. This photo-essay is an attempt to physically capture the different environments along the process of surgery as experienced by patients and their families, together and independently of one another. In this sense, the photo essay serves as a reminder that surgical teams can help bridge experiences of patients and families, providing opportunities for shared understanding whenever possible and/or desired.
