I’m No Hero

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Fight or Flight 1
5. Uncertainty 18
6. The Sum of All Fears 22
7. A Journal of the Plague Year 2020 26
8. What I Will Not Doff 42
9. Workday 47
10. A Mask 50
11. Facing the Unknown 52
12. On Pandemic and Uselessness 61
13. Pandemic 67
14. Prescription for Water 68
15. Palliative Care 70
16. My So-Called COVID Life 71
17. Pulling Strings 79
18. Disembodied 85
19. Same But Different 93
20. I’m No Hero 97
21. Sidelined 100
22. Behind the Front Line 101
23. Singularity 108
24. With Beauty 109
25. Management Was Mad 114
26. Preoccupations of a Public Health Resident 116
27. Bongo Guy in Lockdown 119
28. Mango Season 125
29. Solidarity 132
30. I Am Letting Myself Go 133
31. Life and Death in Denendeh 136
32. Jipasi na’sɨk melkitai 144
33. In the ER, Patients Need My Comfort But I Am Scared to Give It 145
34. Vicissitude 149
35. Connection 152
36. What Was Missing 153
37. A Family History in 2 Pandemics, 4 Infections, and 102 Years 162
38. Endurance 165
39. Blowing Smoke in Your Ear 167
40. It’s Hard Not to Slam a Fist on the Table When the Finish Line Keeps Lurching Further Ahead, or Third Wave 185
41. An Unconventional Conclusion 191
42. Acknowledgements 197
43. Contributors 199