Encounters — A medical student doesn't recognize her own body

In this narrative, Dr. Sumedha Arya reflects back on a time while she was in medical school when her body felt foreign. Dr. Arya is an internal medicine resident at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario. She wrote a Humanities Encounters article published in CMAJ called "Ego and id." To read the article: www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.181581 ----------------------------------- Music: Evening Fall Harp by Kevin MacLeod, YouTube audio library ----------------------------------- For more stories like this one, get your copy of CMAJ’s Encounters Book. This anthology of prose and poetry of some 100 Canadian authors including Drs. David Goldbloom, Shane Neilson, Allan Peterkin and Monica Kidd, has been specially curated and includes a study guide. shop.cma.ca/products/encounters ----------------------------------- Subscribe to CMAJ Podcasts on Apple Podcasts, iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Overcast, Instacast, or your favourite app. You can also follow us directly on our SoundCloud page or you can visit www.cmaj.ca/page/multimedia/podcasts.