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    Pandemic Voices
    Unheard Stories from the Front Lines

    Laura A. Hawryluck (Edited by), Nathan D. Nielsen (Edited by)

    9781487553456

    Paperback / softback, published 31 March 2025

    328 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.46 kg

    Pandemic Voices sheds light on previously unheard or overlooked international perspectives of patients and health care and community services workers through unprecedented access to some of the most challenging moments of the COVID-19 pandemic: the innovations, the stories of lives saved, those of lives lost, and the prices paid.

    Divided into seven thematic sections, the collection chronicles the experiences from the front lines of the pandemic. It highlights the disruptions faced by medical systems and the innovative adaptations that emerged to simply keep them functioning, as well as the pandemic impacts from locations overlooked by global media. The book delves into the profound effects on health care workers and reveals insights into strain on health care systems. It amplifies the voices of individuals who faced unique struggles during the pandemic, such as caregivers for children with special needs or individuals battling addiction, in times when resources were basically non-existent in a chaotic landscape. The collection concludes with a reflection on how history will judge our pandemic-era actions, alongside the hard lessons learned on truth, science, and advocacy throughout these challenging years.

    In sharing the heartbreaks, the triumphs, and the scars that left none of us untouched, Pandemic Voices assesses what we have been through – what went well, what did not – in order to learn and, in time, hopefully to heal.

    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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