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2008/09/23:
Welcome to the Osler Lecture and Banquet
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Preparations are beginning for the biggest medical event of the year,
the Osler Lecture and Banquet. Our guest of honor is Dr. Richard Horton, who follows in tradition many dozens of other great speakers, and he will talk about the new focus of the Lancet in the medical world of today.
Richard
Horton was appointed editor-in-chief of The Lancet in 1995, at the age
of 33. Under his leadership, the journal has initiated some
highly-charged debates about the role of medicine in society, wading
into issues ranging from statistics of civilian deaths in Iraq to the
ethics of medical publishing. The Lancet's distinctive global focus
will be reflected in Richard Horton's lecture.
Find out more here.
We need a huge amount of help with
this event: from selling tickets to putting up posters to ushering to
setting up to the cash bar. If you can help, let us know at oslersociety.mcgill@gmail.com!
How to get tickets: pay Niall F., Nora H., Chloe B., Andrew H. Thanks you four!
The
Lecture is open to everyone. Banquet Tickets go on sale October 6th for
Med-1's, October 13th for Med-2's, and any that's left over will be
open to all after October 20th. However, there are only 150 tickets, and as they are quite cheap (heavily subsidized by the department), they are almost invariably sold out very quickly.
Get one from your
Med-1 or Med-2 classmates (Niall F., Nora H., Chloe B., Andrew H.) who are helping us sell the
tickets. Pay them, and
you will receive a signed receipt. You
must bring this signed receipt with your Student ID 30 minutes before
the Osler Lecture begins to pick up your actual ticket.
Date: October 29th
Time: 5:30 PM - 6 PM (pick up tickets) 6 PM - 7 PM (Lecture open to all), 8 PM - 11 PM (Banquet, tickets required)
Place: Palmer Theater
Price: 40$
2008/09/18:
Today with Dr. Colin Chapman, building a clinic in Uganda
Join us
today, 5-7PM, Thompson House (3650 McTavish), room 405 to
hear about Dr. Chapman's experiences building a clinic in Uganda!
Last
Thursday, for the first time in memory, we participated in the
undergrad Activities Night. With a fresh mix of thoughts and minds, we
hope this year's Osler Society will be as good as any previous year!
2008/08/27:
NEW SEMESTER with Dr. Faith Wallis and Hippocrates, Sept. 4th 2008!
Come join us at
the Osler library, inside the Life Sciences Library in McIntyre (walk
straight in), for our first
lecture of the year:
"Not by
Chance, but by the Art": Why Hippocrates Matters, with Dr. Faith Wallis
It will be a great event, not to be missed. Click above for details!
At the end of last semester, we had a few great meetings with Dr.
Boudreau concerning Physicianship, Global Health with Dr. Brewer, and
Gandhi with Leonid Chindelevitch. Check out synopses and more on our events
page.
2008/07/7:
Previous week with Dr. Miller, this week with Dr. Boudreau
Everyone is welcome to meet Dr. Boudreau this week, to hear
his side of the story concerning Physicianship. With dialogue and much
deep thought, we are confident that concrete change will come that will
better the education of future doctors! Details on our events page.
Last
week Dr. Miller told us some incredibly exciting work she is doing with
herbs and cancer. Natural products such as echinacea, ginseng and
melantonin may well hold the key to curing cancer; they certainly do in
mice. Check out more on our
events page, including readings!
2008/07/1:
Into July with Dr. Sandra Miller
We had a great meeting with Dr. Khoury on causation in law
and medicine, then we had another one with Dr. Somerville on
Technoscience vs. Right to Life. Final exams and others have delayed
updates, but join us
this week with our most fun loving professor, Dr. Sandra Miller!
More
details always on our Events page.
2008/06/12:
June and July Schedule
After we had a hardcore session on Physicianship
feedback and a week of idleness, we've managed distill our
thoughts into this document.
It's a monstrosity at 2500 words, but with Dr. Greenfield and Dr.
Boudreau promising to read it, I hope it will create a shift in this
world.
Thanks to everyone who has been a part of this long and
rather difficult process! This letter will circulate around the class,
and if you wish to contact me about it, you're more than welcome
to do so.
We will be meeting throughout July and have great things lining up:
This week, June
19th: 'Causation in
Law and Medicine' by Dr. Khoury
A
session on medical liability. Because causation is such a nebulous
concept (did this doctor's action actually cause this result? What
about nosocomial infections?), how does law come to grips with
responsibility in these cases? The readings are here.
June 26th: "The Ethical Imagination" by
Dr. Somerville
Her
unconventional but deeply thought-out stances on everything from
abortion to medical research will challenge our world views and force
us to reflect on our beliefs.
July 3rd:
Dr. Miller on anatomy in medicine
July 10th:
Dr. Boudreau on Physicianship feedback
July 17th: Dr.
Brewer on International Health
July 24th:
On the Bhopal Disaster (to be confirmed)
As always, find out more on our events page!
So, it's incredibly fascinating stuff coming up, join us every Thursday at 6:00
PM, Thompson House 403, and bring all your friends!
2008/05/29:
From Osler to Physicianship
Each of our meetings have been real successes so far, as we happily
discussed the Aequanimitas,
learned about its many references to the old Classics, talked about
modern medicine, and many other things (check out our Events
page!)
Our next meeting will be about medical education, our vision
of it, and we will pound out feedback for Physicianship as a
practical application of our visions. We will not attempt to reach
consensus, merely (!) deep and careful thought. The format will be as
suggested by Dr. Boudreau and Dr. Greenfield. Again check out our
our Events
page :-)
I also updated the synopses from Dr. Galaty's meeting
Our last meeting turned out really excellent, we attracted 15
people, many first timers to our meeting. Dr. Galaty is a very deep
thinker - with enormous insightful into the plights of the world. Our
next meeting will be a study of Osler's Aequanimitas,
on May 29th! For both our last and our next events, check out more
details on our Events
page.
After only a month in existence and 3 informal meetings, we are proud
to present our first public talk by Dr. John Galaty, the previous Dean
of Arts, on post-colonial Africa.
'Interpreting Post-Colonial crises
in Africa: Development, conflict, health'
Speaker: Prof. John Galaty
Place: Thompson House Room 403
Time: May 20th, 6 pm
See
our Events
page for more details! Background readings are:
Double-voiced
violence in Kenya - an eerie
foreshadowing of the current crisis in Kenya, seen through historical
violence of the past
Global
Shadows - Africa and the World
- what is the concept of "Africa" and does it even make any sense? What
role does this concept play in great events of the world?
2008/05/14:
Join us!
Check out our Events
for
what we do and what we hope to do, check out our Reading List
for what we are
reading or want to read - and what's going on in our heads, check out About Us
for our history, and
check out Osler
or Links
to learn more about our
patron saint.
Finally, email jzxue@hotmail.com
if you want to join! Else head over to our Forums
to drop us a message, or leave us your own inspiration from medicine.
2008/05/11:
After almost two months, everything is finally up and going! We now
have an Events section, and a Reading list section. The Forums have
been debugged like mad, but still isn't quite working (you can only
login, you can't log out - which sums up the Osler society quite aptly,
I think ;-). The Gallery has been taken offline for the moment to work
out some security issues - we won't need it until next year's Osler
Banquet at any rate.
We have had our first two weekly meetings, check them out here! We
also have many, many
plans for the club. Our
weekly meetings are on Tuesdays, starting anywhere between 6-7 PM,
and is completely informal (e.g. arriving at 8:30 will win you solid
applause, not a round of boo's). Usually it's a potluck, each bring
some little thing, but certainly you're more important than your food
:-)
Contact jzxue@hotmail.com
for place, time, topic and other details of these meetings!
2008/03/19:
Almost complete. Debugging galore (going old school and using tables
was a terrible choice... should've CSS'd everything). Gallery working,
but not perfectly.
This
site is currently optimized for Firefox or any mozilla based
browser. IE will have a bunch of little problems... grrr...
2008/03/18:
Links
Section complete. Content starting to go up; several technical problems
plague Forums and Gallery; check back in a week!
2008/03/17:
Design starting to come together
