Edward Etchells is a staff physician in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto.
On COVID rounds, my next patient is an experienced personal support worker who works at a long term care home.
She’s recovering from severe pneumonia.
We spoke of the many residents from the home that have died.
She started to cry.
“I knew them all so well. They were my parents”.
Muriel
This is an eye opener! We often think that staff in LTC are impersonal, uncaring…a low paying job for immigrants, learning to speak the language . So, this piece was refreshing, reassuring.
Diane Aubin
The shortest stories are sometimes the most poignant.