
A Healthy Future
Lessons from the Frontlines of a Crisis
Ryan Meili(Author)
University of British Columbia Press
Published on 1. October 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-7748-8090-9 (ISBN)
Description
This gripping account of the COVID-19 experience in Saskatchewan goes beyond pandemic memoir to draw lessons we can use to create a healthier future.
Filled with moving stories of how COVID changed people's lives, Ryan Meili's deeply humane account of the pandemic draws on his unique experience as a doctor and as the leader of Saskatchewan's official opposition during the first two years of the outbreak. A Healthy Future reveals how the pandemic exposed and made worse problems in health care, elder care, education, and social supports - and details how we can do better.
Written with passion and commitment, this book offers a firsthand look at how the pandemic laid bare the shortcomings of Saskatchewan's - and Canada's - public health response, with tragic results. It also provides an inspiring vision of what Canadians can learn from the pandemic to create a healthier and more equitable future.
Filled with moving stories of how COVID changed people's lives, Ryan Meili's deeply humane account of the pandemic draws on his unique experience as a doctor and as the leader of Saskatchewan's official opposition during the first two years of the outbreak. A Healthy Future reveals how the pandemic exposed and made worse problems in health care, elder care, education, and social supports - and details how we can do better.
Written with passion and commitment, this book offers a firsthand look at how the pandemic laid bare the shortcomings of Saskatchewan's - and Canada's - public health response, with tragic results. It also provides an inspiring vision of what Canadians can learn from the pandemic to create a healthier and more equitable future.
Reviews / Votes
"[Meili] has done us a service in meticulously chronicling a ghastly period."- John Baglow (Literary Review of Canada) "When the pandemic arrived, Dr. Ryan Meili was both a physician and the leader of the NDP opposition in Saskatchewan. He was in a unique position to take part in both the medical and the political responses to COVID-19, and he kept meticulous notes. He transformed them into an insightful journal of Saskatchewan's plague years in A Healthy Future: Lessons from the Frontlines of a Crisis, his new book published this fall." - Crawford Kilian (The Tyee)
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Vancouver
Canada
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
10 b&w photos
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
460 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7748-8090-9 (9780774880909)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Ryan Meili is a family physician who focuses on health equity and social justice. He is the author of A Healthy Society: How a Focus on Health Can Revive Canadian Democracy. He has practised family medicine in rural and Northern Saskatchewan, as well as in Saskatoon and rural Mozambique. In 2017, he was elected as the Member of Saskatchewan's Legislative Assembly for Saskatoon Meewasin, going on to serve as Leader of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party and Leader of the Official Opposition in Saskatchewan from 2018 to 2022. He lives in Saskatoon with his wife, Mahli Brindamour, and their two sons, Abe and Gus.
Content
Foreword: Wisdom in the Scars / Katharine Smart
Introduction
First Wave
Gathering Clouds
The Longest March
Losing Trust
Reopening Minds
Eye of the Storm
Second Wave
Ignoring the Signs
Back to School
Respecting Our Elders
Third Wave
Miracles and Mudholes
Variants of Concern
Fourth Wave
Best Summer Ever
The Dam Breaks
Fifth Wave
Putting It Mildly
Waving Goodbye
Lessons for the Next Wave
Acknowledgments; Notes; Index
Introduction
First Wave
Gathering Clouds
The Longest March
Losing Trust
Reopening Minds
Eye of the Storm
Second Wave
Ignoring the Signs
Back to School
Respecting Our Elders
Third Wave
Miracles and Mudholes
Variants of Concern
Fourth Wave
Best Summer Ever
The Dam Breaks
Fifth Wave
Putting It Mildly
Waving Goodbye
Lessons for the Next Wave
Acknowledgments; Notes; Index