Author: CMAJ

Apr 24 2020

COVID-19, Patients' blog, Reflections

Déjà vu in the time of COVID-19

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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?

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

Apr 22 2020

COVID-19, Maureen Taylor, Reflections

My COVID-19 patient arc

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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 20 2020

COVID-19, Medical Dispatches

COVID-19 and cancer care in Thunder Bay

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Our intimate connection to personnel and resources in the rest of Ontario has become more apparent during this crisis.

Apr 18 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

COVID-19: What can medical students do?

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

Apr 16 2020

COVID-19, Medical Dispatches, Tara Kiran

An ode to our primary care team

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I have never been so grateful to be part of a team.

Apr 09 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

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

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

Apr 05 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

Thank you

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Friends in Health Care, I write this letter to thank you for your service.

Apr 02 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

Safeguarding the health of Canada’s most vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Using the same resolve with which we rush to acquire personal protective equipment and ventilators, we must ensure that Canadians don’t fall through the socioeconomic cracks.

Apr 01 2020

COVID-19, Medical Dispatches, Reflections, Tara Kiran

A story of the twin crises of COVID-19 and homelessness

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Where do patients without a home wait for results? Will they have a bed to return to if they test negative? How can they self-isolate if positive? And what happens...

Apr 01 2020

COVID-19, Medical Dispatches, Reflections

A particularly memorable night on-call

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His chest x-ray was concerning for viral pneumonia which made us highly suspicious he might be Canada’s first case of COVID-19.

Mar 27 2020

COVID-19, Medical Dispatches, Reflections

Lessons COVID-19 has taught me

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Being afraid and being brave are not mutually exclusive.

Mar 26 2020

COVID-19, Irfan Dhalla, Reflections, Tara Kiran

A fortnight is forever in a pandemic

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The airport in Miami was crowded, virtually every restaurant was open, hand hygiene was abysmal, and signage was minimal and woefully out of date.

Mar 26 2020

COVID-19, Maureen Taylor, Reflections

From SARS reporter to COVID-19 front line

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I was the CBC’s National Medical Reporter in 2013 when SARS hit Toronto, and that single story pretty much occupied my time for three months straight.