Simple pleasures of spring after a long Covid winter

We are all different people and the world a different place than a year ago.

Dealing with grieving families takes a toll on physicians, but watching patients die alone is worse. Until Covid it was also rare.

An ER doctor's meditation on loss in the time of Covid

A talk for A Light on the Hill Ceremony, Utah State University, 1 September 2020.

Details about individual patients have been changed to protect their identities. Descriptions of COVID are exactly as I witnessed them. 

A childhood injury upended by coronavirus.

My morning walk, accompanied by the dog and my thoughts.

My grandfather's experiences in World War II bring me comfort today.

Flattening the coronavirus curve is not just important for hospitals and sick relatives.