“Early on in this wave, we had 1,000 staff members off work every day”: UHN’s head of critical care on how ICUs are coping with the hospital crisis
"Everybody’s exhausted. We’ve had people break down in tears in the middle of their shifts"
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“We’re seeing triple the number of Covid patients as we did in previous waves”: A Toronto General emergency doctor on what it’s like in the ER right now
"We're seeing younger and healthier patients who feel truly awful with Covid"
“Staff are calling in sick every day”: How this ER nurse is coping with the Omicron surge
"We're running, we're short-staffed, there are children screaming and crying. It's chaotic"
“People were yelling and calling me names”: What it’s like for health care workers to walk through hospital anti-vax protests
One ER doctor staged his own counter-protest
“I kept thinking about all the surgeries being postponed during Covid”: This ex–construction CEO is building surgical units out of shipping containers
"Each unit has two rooms, two anterooms and a nursing station, as well as its own HVAC system so there’s no cross-contamination"
“To some people, I’m not what a doctor is supposed to look like”: U of T’s med school valedictorian shares her story
“Maybe a young person who looks like me is watching my address and thinking that she would like to be a doctor one day”
“There aren’t enough doctors up there”: A finance worker turned ER doctor flew to the Northwest Territories to work the front lines
On April 19, I left Toronto for Fort Smith, via Edmonton. My journey was bizarre
Doctors are rebelling against Ontario’s crumbling healthcare system
There's no easy cure for a system as sick as ours
