Welcome to our third issue of Night Float! After a brief hiatus, the MacMed community has come together once again to create a book full of talent and artistic expression. Every submission in this issue represents their student's hard work, creativity, and unique stories. We're so lucky to have so many amazing artists in MacMed!

Night Float is McMaster Medicine’s arts and creative writing publication. This title was chosen by our predecessors because it represents an aspect of medicine that is grueling yet rewarding, and brings forth a change in perspective, has an air of mystery, and fuels the imagination. Night Float serves to celebrate and showcase the creativity of our community, which can be easily forgotten when we are consumed by clinical or academic medicine. Medicine is, after all, an art.

We hope that you enjoy the pieces our classmates have worked so hard on. Perhaps they will inspire you, push you to refect, or simply fill you with a feeling of awe and satisfaction. Whichever it be, we hope that this will help to connect you to the MacMed community.

Please enjoy this third issue of Night Float.

Best, your c2026 Night Float co-chairs:

Donna Gao, Deeptha Ramikrishnan, Zain Jafry