Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-132).

Machine generated contents note: MARCH -- Testing -- Human -- O, Rona -- Sleep -- APRIL -- Ventilators and Electricity -- Plus, One -- The Case of the Missing Feather -- The Things We Leave Behind -- MAY -- Mortician -- Holes in the Brain -- Creatures -- Paneraff -- May -- JUNE, AND ONWARD -- The Dream of a Ridiculous Woman -- Post-Colonial -- Crawl Me a Sliced.

Resumen:"During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Selina Mahmood--in the middle of the first year of her neurology residency--found scraps of time between grueling shifts to write. The resulting A Pandemic in Residence: Essays from a Detroit Hospital is her personal and meticulous document of an unprecedented year in medicine, and the debut of a young and uncommon talent. In the tradition of writers like Oliver Sacks and Paul Kalanithi, Dr. Mahmood takes the science of neurology and spins it into poetry, exploring theories of the mind, Pakistani-American identity, immigration, family, the history of medicine, and, of course, the challenges of becoming a physician in the midst of a global health crisis. Skipping nimbly across continents and drawing inspiration from an array of sources ranging from Thomas Edison to Yuval Harari to Beyonc,̌ she has with this collection crafted an elegant, incisive, utterly original investigation into our universal search for meaning."-- Back cover