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 13 2020

COVID-19, Editors' Blog, Reflections

Feeling pessimistic about COVID-revealed inequities

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The coronavirus has done a great job of highlighting the obvious. The poor and disadvantaged always get screwed.

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 07 2020

COVID-19, Maureen Taylor, Reflections

What would Don do?

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Don thought our public health and health care systems needed to prepare. This meant convincing government X that it needed to invest in stockpiles of masks and antivirals and hire...

Apr 06 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

Letter to colleagues of the world from an Italian doctor

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In Italy, with its long history of epidemics, the relationship between society, contagion and anointers  has remained strong, mysterious and unresolved throughout the centuries..

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 05 2020

COVID-19, Editors' Blog

Far away

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I had spent a long time explaining to my mom that, because she has heart failure and a pacemaker and is also the eyes for my all-but-blind dad, she really...

Apr 04 2020

COVID-19, Editors' Blog

Why I am leaving my mom in her long-term care facility

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No matter how hard we tried to support her, she just couldn’t manage in her apartment anymore. And it would be almost impossible for us to care for her in...

Apr 03 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

The privilege of being a resident during COVID-19

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I have internal monologues about how often to sanitize my equipment. Is my cell phone going to survive all this virox? It is the least of my worries right now,...

Apr 02 2020

COVID-19, Editors' Blog

CMAJ in the time of COVID-19

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Thank you to authors and reviewers who have turned around reviews and revisions on COVID-19 related articles quickly, sometimes in between shifts in the ICU.

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...