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Vicki Forman
Vicki Forman

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Oct 9, 2021

Burnout

We’ve been talking about this a lot at work, and it’s in the news too: how the pandemic is affecting health care workers. I see it in my colleagues. Frustration, exhaustion, irritability. …

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Burnout
Burnout
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Mar 25, 2021

What’s Normal

Last March, we celebrated my husband’s birthday at a Patti Smith concert. A week later the lockdown happened. I often look at photos from that night, wondering who in the audience might have had Covid, who might have died in the weeks or months that followed, who probably lost a…

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What’s Normal
What’s Normal

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Feb 27, 2021

Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment My colleagues and I are not well. I could tell you about all the reasons why. I could rattle off what we’ve handled and what we haven’t. I could tell you all this but instead I will let you in a little. Not the big gaping lot…

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Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment
Covid

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Feb 5, 2021

A Shot in the Arm

I volunteered last week to administer Covid vaccinations for county. It was a day off for me but I stood there in the rain, screening folks and taking temperatures and watching as car after car drove by past me on their way to the Vaccine Party. We gave 2400 shots…

Covid-19

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A Shot in the Arm
A Shot in the Arm
Covid-19

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Feb 5, 2021

Covid-19, A Year Later

Covid-19, A Year Later Nearly a year ago, I was sitting at the cramped nurse’s station in the operating room where I work, hearing about the first community transmission of Covid-19 in California. “It’s here,” a surgeon reported to me. “We’ve got it.” We all knew what “it” was but…

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Covid-19

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Vicki Forman

Vicki Forman

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Writer, mother, knitter, nurse — not necessarily in that order.

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