Encounters — A physician opts to listen to a friend rather than offer medical advice

In this fictional narrative, Dr. Carolyne Montgomery explores what happens when, as a doctor, your patients are also your friends...and your friends are patients, but not yours. Dr. Montgomery is a recently retired Pediatric Anesthesiologist and a graduate of The Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. She wrote a Humanities Encounters article published in CMAJ called "Listening." To read the article: www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.181479 ----------------------------------- Music: Earnest 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.