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Adam

Rime of the Anxious Resident

As I’ve written before, I’ve never been the most certain medical student. My real academic love is History, leaving me totally isolated from classmates as they compete in sports, travel to Africa, and research obscure enzymatic pathways.

One Small Step

Four years ago last May, I was accepted into Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. As I tell the story today, it was a surprise, and I anguished over my decision. After all, I’d just gotten a History degree, and I’d applied almost for fun. Of course, that isn't the whole truth.

The 81st Parallel

In the fall, I wrote a post I called “Around the World in Eighty Ways”, which described my angst and guilt regarding my classmates’ desires to travel the world and to work in rural areas when I lacked the w

Talking Shop by Adam Fowler

Let me set a scene (nothing medical): wheat shaved to stubble and lathered with snow, the occasional pimple of a farmhouse—both black, collapsing and white, new—and the weary grid roads that literally crisscross the Canadian prairies.

Trypanophobia - Adam Fowler

I’m going to write as a patient, for a moment. I’m scared of needles. I have been as long as I can remember. It might be understandable, given that the first needle I ever remember getting was an arterial blood gas at my wrist.

Around the World in Eighty Ways

Last year, I read this article from CBC about the huge rural-doctor shortage here in Saskatchewan (don’t ask me why it’s in the Manitoba section).

Bowtie delight by Adam Fowler

Adam Fowler Some time in second year, I decided to start we

Your Turn! by Adam Fowler

“Should we call a code? I think we should call a code.” A team of us were in the resuscitation bay with an angry monitor and a suddenly very ill patient.

Six years young

I have a story I need to tell. It’s for my sake, to understand my own feelings, and for yours, hoping that you’ll pause for a minute longer the next time you’re at the bedside.

Metaphor

I have to admit something right now: I've never heard a blood-curdling scream. Or had my skin crawl. Or done back-breaking work. Well, not literally, at least. English is steeped in metaphors—like that one.

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