From the frontlines: What it's like to treat COVID-19 patients, and what it's like to be a doctor infected with COVID-19 - a podcast by CBC Radio

Canadians are doing their bit to control the spread of COVID-19 through physical distancing. The idea is to stay far away from a sometimes-deadly virus to which we’re not immune. You can’t do that if you’re a frontline healthcare worker. This week, Dr. Brian Goldman speaks to fellow healthcare workers, who, like him, are dealing with COVID-19 every day, on the job. Maureen Taylor is a physician assistant working on COVID-19 ward at Toronto's Michael Garron hospital. She shares an intimate look at what it's like to treat COVID-19 patients, some of whom will not recover. She and Dr. Goldman share thoughts on how they remain calm in the face of the crisis, concerns about a lack of protective equipment and the heightened risk they face for getting infected. That risk became a reality for Dr. Joseph Finkler, a Vancover ER doctor who is now recovering from COVID-19. He tells Dr. Goldman what it felt like to have COVID-19 and how he feels now that he's recovered, including the fact that he's facing stigma from neighbours and even other healthcare workers because he tested positive.

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