Since the spread of COVID-19, it’s become clear healthcare workers make up our society’s last line of defence. Every day, doctors, nurses and healthcare staff are putting their and their families’ lives on the line to help treat the sick, as they face a mounting number of patients.

What is it really like to serve on the frontline of a pandemic? What are doctors and nurses seeing in emergency rooms? How are our healthcare workers coping with the mental stress of making life and death decisions at an unprecedented time, while also being exposed daily to COVID-19?

Today, Adrian Cheung talks to an emergency room doctor, Dr. David Carr, in Toronto. Carr has worked in emergency medicine for nearly two decades and gives a firsthand account on what healthcare workers are facing in the fight against COVID-19.

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Background reading:

‘I didn’t sign up to die on my job’: Fear and anger among Ontario nurses battling COVID-19 pandemic

Ontario hospitals get new emergency powers