Difficult Pandemic Decisions
Doctors are making difficult decisions on behalf of patients every day during the pandemic. Watch as four physicians and an ethicist describe their most difficult choices so far.
Dr. Erin O’Connor
Toronto Emergency Physician
The COVID-19 virus was not yet fully understood at the start of the pandemic. Dr. O’Connor shares the difficult decision she had to make about whether to go home to her children after a shift in the emergency department.
Watch their stories
Dr. Erin O’Connor
Toronto Emergency Physician
Dr. Lawrence Loh
Peel Region Medical Officer of Health
Dr. Anju Anand
St. Michael’s Hospital Respirologist
Prof. Maxwell Smith
Western University Bioethicist and COVID-19 Bioethics Table Member
Dr. Samantha Hill
OMA Past-President and St. Michael's Hospital Cardiac Surgeon