Pandemic Voices

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 Glossary Contributors