This essay is based on the winning entry from the UBC Faculty of Medicine Book Club’s 2016 writing competition.
UBC Medicine’s writing competition aims to encourage writing as a way to reflect and communicate, just as adjuvants boost the immune system in vaccines. The competition was open to all UBC medical students. The winning submission was selected by a panel of judges with literary experience and an interest in fostering the relationship between the written arts and medicine.
Ms Caddy recently received her MD from the University of British Columbia and is excited to start her residency training in family medicine. Having forgone a creative writing degree to pursue biology, she attended Malaspina University-College (now Vancouver Island University) before earning her BSc in biology at the University of Victoria.
