Health care workers are at breaking point. So when someone says Covid-19 does not exist it hurts..
Burials: We can’t keep up!
Circles of Light
Surgery is a privileged profession, one which captivates and entrances. It is also a demanding discipline where failure stabs at your heart with no forgiveness. But this morning I was captivated by the lights.
H.O.P.E.
Even as the postcards started arriving the signs of the second surge were present. The statistics are anywhere to be found but a retired colleague of my brother has done his own programming and has a useful site to look at the numbers if you need to: https://www.covibes.org Back to the postcards. They are being collected…
A Postcard to Covid
A Postcard to Covid One thing has worried me during Covid and initially no one understood. To survive and heal after this pandemic we need to remember the story of what happened. Our modern instant access to newsfeeds and intrusive social media have overloaded us with statistics and disease progression. In a few years’ time if…
The Ocean
I wrote this poem at the end of the Southern Hemisphere summer and the beginning of the pandemic.
A Note for Future Generations
Covid-19 is still with us. The South African curve is not flattening, and the number of new cases and deaths continues to rise. I am seeing my first Covid-19 positive patient at Netcare Kingsway Hospital. He is fortunately well. Unfortunately the surgery for his broken arm will be delayed for two weeks. I am not prepared…
A New Sense of Responsibility
Surgery is a privileged profession in so many ways. But under the cloud of Covid-19 I discovered a new profound privilege. I had to operate on a 16 year old girl. She had injured her knee before lockdown and we had planned a knee ligament reconstruction. She was due to come into Kingsway Hospital with…
So Now Your Hospital is Open…
The seven days that Netcare Kingsway Hospital was closed completely became a long week. There were moments of self-doubt. Finding calm in the moments that made up the closure of our community hospital was difficult. I was paralyzed during the week my hospital was closed. I limited my news intake, and as I don’t use…
What Does “Closing Your Hospital” Mean?
Toward the end of last year I was reading an article on disruption from Singularity University. The writer challenged businesses to think how they would respond if their customer base was suddenly lost. The challenge seemed to be based on climate change extremes and technological advances. It was a good article, and I thought about it. My…
The Simple Truth About Nurses
Dear Nurses In another world I would have been an engineer sitting behind a computer solving other management problems. But thanks to an inspirational ICU nurse I changed from engineering to medicine. Now in this world, as a doctor, I am a humble part of the team at Kingsway Hospital that is managing the Covid-19…
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