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Pandemic Insight

Time to Create Change

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From: Shadows and Light

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Chapter Eight reflects on what we can learn from the pandemic and how we should move forward both personally and professionally. Topics discussed include the long road to recovery, the trauma from being sick and the isolation, long-Covid, disrupted social connections, Covid-related mental illness, the backlog of surgeries delayed by the pandemic, the Omicron variant, and the need to move forward and create an open and lasting dialogue to bring change to the medical care system across Canada.

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Heather Patterson

Heather Patterson is an emergency physician and photographer from Calgary. When the pandemic struck, Patterson decided to put her twenty years of photography experience to use and began capturing the intimate moments at Calgary hospitals that went on to become Shadows and Light. Images from the project have been featured in Maclean’s, where they were a finalist for a National Magazine Award, and the Calgary Herald and on CBC, CityNews, Global News, and CTV. Patterson has received the Award for Medical Journalism from the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians, and her work has been featured in medical journals and presented at conferences and grand rounds across the country.