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Cover of Lounge, Issue 2, Summer 2026

Volume 1, Issue 2, Summer 2026

What Was Already There

Four essays, four versions of the same pattern: the catalyst for change was already there.

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  1. Letter from the Editor

    What Was Already There

    In 2024, Queen’s University introduced a lottery into its medical school admissions process.

    Daniel Rasic

  2. The Landlord’s Algorithm

    Clinical AI is becoming the cognitive infrastructure of Canadian medicine. Who owns it?

    Frank Rudzicz

  3. On a Scale from One to Ten

    How Lessons from Pediatrics Could Help Improve Procedural Pain for Women+

    Joanne Gallant

  4. Removing Barriers, Not Lowering the Bar

    Medical admissions are not merely selecting students. They are constructing Canada’s future physician workforce.

    Nadia Aumeerally

  5. Frequency Over Force

    The Untold Story of Magnetic Stimulation

    Daniel Rasic
  6. From the Archive

    The Student Life

    The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course.

    William Osler