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“There was one patient I distinctly remember telling, ‘I don’t think you’re going to survive this,’ and I remember the patient looking at me and telling me, ‘I think you’re right; I think I’m going to die. ”
Dr. Samantha Halman, a general internal medicine specialist at The Ottawa Hospital whose division oversees the non-ICU COVID-19 units, recalls a conversation she had with a COVID-19 patient, one of too many she’s seen over these past months.
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