‘Anything is better than this’ – a doctor describes the pain of Peel’s sickest COVID-19 patients

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“You’re so focused on doing what you can to make that patient better, everything else sort of falls by the wayside. Our job is complicated on many different levels and part of it in that moment is we really have to display a sense of confidence to the patient, who is basically struggling to hang on for their life,” he tells The Pointer. “They need to know that nobody is second-guessing themselves and they’re going to be well taken care of and to provide that reassurance is very important.”

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The risk from being placed on mechanical ventilation is high, for both patient and caregivers, but once COVID-19 ravages the body, the ill will grasp at anything that might bring relief.

One Mississauga doctor talks about what it’s like to treat some of the city’s most severely stricken COVID-19 patients.

Published in The Pointer Brampton and The Pointer Mississauga on April 22, 2020