Pandemic Voices

Laura A. Hawryluck, MD, is a professor of critical care medicine in the Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine Program at the University of Toronto. Nathan D. Nielsen, MD, is an associate professor in the Departments of Internal Medicine and Pathology at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine.

List of Figures and Tables

Preface
Nathan D. Nielsen, MD

Part One: Prices Paid

1. My COVID-19 Journey
Anthony McDermott

2. Dania: Riyadh Hospital, 2020
Hassan Al-Habeeb, MD

3. Raging Fire: An ICU Physician’s Experience as a COVID-19 Patient
Keith Azevedo, MD

4. The Person in the Health Care Worker
Rima Styra, MD, Med, FRCPC

5. COVID-19 on the Front Lines: Mental Health and Resilience
Peter G. Brindley, MD, FRCPC, FRCP

6. Trauma and Trepidation: The Emotional and Moral Toll of Dealing with Sick Patients
Matyas Hervieux, BSc (Hons), DHS, MA, MD, CCFP (EM)

7. Compassion Fatigue: The Palliative Perspective
Sonia Malhotra, MD, MS, FAAP, FAAHPM

Part Two: Scarcity

8. The Last Bed: Triage and Triage Avoidance
James Downar, MDCM, MHSc, FRCPC, and Bojan N. Paunovic, MD, FRCPC

9. PPE during COVID-19: Scarcity, Science, Logistics, and Paper Bags
Steve A. McLaughlin, MD; Erik Kraai, MD; and PPE Committee of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine

10. OMG, We Are Running Out of Propofol!
Scott Roach, PharmD, MBA, and Preeyaporn Sarangarm, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP

Part Three: Necessity Is the Mother of Invention

11. Anchored in Family: Starting a Business in Health Care Innovation during COVID-19
Sabrina Fiorellino, JD

12. A Voice from the Operating Room to the Intensive Care Unit: An Anesthesiologist, Redeployed
Gianni R. Lorello, BSc, MD, MSc (Med Ed), CIP, FRCPC

13. How COVID-19 Changed the Way We Transported Patients between Ontario's Hospitals: Prone Patient Transports
Andy Pan, MD, FRCPC; Michael Peddle, MD, FRCPC; and Russell MacDonald, MD, MPH, FRCPC, DRCPSC

14. Transporting Patients: Kilometers to Go to Find a Home
Bojan N. Paunovic, MD, FRCPC

15. When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going: A “Hybrid Model” of Pediatric and Adult Critical Care during the COVID-19 Surge
Akash Deep, MD, FRCPCH; Philip Knight, MD, MBChB, MRCPH; and Louis Skevington-Postles, BSc

16. Lessons Learned from COVID-19: Personal Perspectives from a Low- and Middle-Income Country
Mervyn Mer, MBBCh, Dip PEC (SA), FCP (SA)

17. Vaccinating Remote Indigenous Communities
Homer Tien, MD, FRCSC

Part Four: Stories from Forgotten Places

18. COVID-19 Pandemic and the Fate of Indonesian Children
Kurniawan Taufiq Kadafi and Ririe Fachrina Malisie

19. Caring for Pediatric Patients with COVID-19 during the Pandemic in Peru: Experiences from 2020 and 2021
Jesús Domínguez-Rojas, MD, and Alvaro Coronado-Muñoz, MD

20. From the Four Directions: Healing on Navajoland
Melissa Begay, MD

Part Five: Learning under Fire

21. Waiting in the Wings: A Medical Trainee’s Pandemic Experience
Gabrielle Karlovich, MD

22. Becoming a Psychiatrist during a Pandemic
Houman Rashidian, MD (PGY5), and Sabrina Agnihotri, MD (PGY4)

23. Pandemic Rites: Rites of Passage as an International ICU Fellow and Journey Back Home
Onion Gerald Vergara Ubaldo, MD, MBA, FRCP, FPSCCM

24. Resident Training in COVID-19 Times
Pamela H. Orr, MD, MSc, FRCPC

Part Six: Systems on the Verge of Collapse

25. Anticipation, Dread, and Worry: Preparing for the Arrival of Sick Patients
Matyas Hervieux, BSc (Hons), DHS, MA, MD, CCFP (EM)

26. “The War on COVID-19”: Reflections from the ICU Front Line
Peter G. Brindley, MD, FRCPC, FRCP

27. Seven Days in the Intensive Care Unit
Laura A. Hawryluck, MSc, MD, FRCPC

28. The Pandemic Was a Powerful Teacher: Ramping Down Services
Fayez Quereshy, MD, MBA, FRCSC, FACS

29. COVID-19 Seen from a Preventionist Physician’s Point of View: Will We Be Able to Draw Lessons for the Future?
Jean Ralph Zahar, MD

30. Treating the UnVaxxed during COVID-19: Did I Sign Up for This?
Peter G. Brindley, MD, FRCPC, FRCP

31. Siloed Still…
Laura A. Hawryluck, MSc, MD, FRCPC

Part Seven: Lessons and Transformations

32. Turning Pain into Progress
Jody Thomas, PhD

33. A Dumpster Full of Flowers
Ingrid Duffy, FNP

34. The Same Room
Hassan Al-Habeeb, MD

35. No Visitors
Rev. Kristel Clayville, PhD

36. History Will Judge Us. And That’s OK.
Joe Vipond, MD, and Kashif Pirzada, MD

Part Eight: Those Left Behind

37. The Other Epidemic: Overdose Crisis
Meaghan Reaburn, PharmD, BScPhm, RPh

38. Accessing Mental Health Services: An Expanding Public Need
Troy Rieck, PhD, C.Psych

39. From the COVID-19 Ashes: A Journey in Life Transformation
Dorrette Ruddock, RN

40. Leading from the Ground: Families Supporting Families and Children with Disabilities
Tina Trigg, PhD

Part Nine: Reconsider/Reflect/Revisit/Return

41. How COVID-19 Made Salient the Need to Reconsider the Relationships between Health Care Providers and Their Family, Friends, Co-Workers and the Public
Matyas Hervieux, BSc (Hons), DHS, MA, MD, CCFP (EM)

42. Science and Truth during and after COVID-19
Peter G. Brindley, MD, FRCPC, FRCP

Afterword
Laura A. Hawryluck, MSc, MD, FRCPC

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Contributors