Category: Reflections

May 08 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

An unusual week in the ICU: In the shadow of a pandemic

5 Comments

This almost seems like a step backwards from all the gains of years of work aimed at humanizing ICUs.

May 06 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

Orphaned

2 Comments

my next patient is an experienced personal support worker who works at a long term care home.

May 02 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

From the sideline of the front line

2 Comments

Without doubt, the lack of assurance that there will be the necessary PPE to provide clinical care has been the biggest stressor for everyone.

Apr 30 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

A call for the standardization of resident protections during the COVID-19 pandemic response

2 Comments

Our status as trainees limits our influence over the environments in which we are deployed to work during infectious disease outbreaks.

Apr 27 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

Month 2

2 Comments

We should acknowledge that we are at the very beginning of a bumpy, winding path up a learning curve of unknown length.

Apr 24 2020

COVID-19, Patients' blog, Reflections

Déjà vu in the time of COVID-19

4 Comments

There will be a return to regular life, although it may not look the same.

Apr 23 2020

COVID-19, Irfan Dhalla, Reflections

Have we flattened the curve that matters?

3 Comments

Lasting success will not come from flattening the curve of incident cases. It will come when we flatten the curve of cumulative cases.

Apr 23 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

Name alert

2 Comments

He is sitting alone on the side of his bed. He is turned away from the sun. The oxygen tubing disappears into the shadow of his face.

Apr 22 2020

COVID-19, Maureen Taylor, Reflections

My COVID-19 patient arc

No Comments

By the beginning of April, there were no more patients with a link to travel, but there was now a definite trend in the socioeconomic background of our COVID patients.

Apr 22 2020

COVID-19, Patients' blog, Reflections

Not every cough is COVID-19

3 Comments

As I described Thomas’ symptoms to my friend over-the-phone, she interrupted me to ask, “Is that him that I can hear breathing?”

Apr 18 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

COVID-19: What can medical students do?

1 Comment

My own experience of SARS in 2003 led me to a career in public health.

Apr 13 2020

COVID-19, Editors' Blog, Reflections

Feeling pessimistic about COVID-revealed inequities

3 Comments

The coronavirus has done a great job of highlighting the obvious. The poor and disadvantaged always get screwed.

Apr 09 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

Release from incarceration during the concurrent COVID-19 and opioid use crises

1 Comment

Releasing people from the high-risk environment that is incarceration is important, but so is knowing what people are being released to.

Apr 07 2020

COVID-19, Maureen Taylor, Reflections

What would Don do?

3 Comments

Don thought our public health and health care systems needed to prepare. This meant convincing government X that it needed to invest in stockpiles of masks and antivirals and hire...