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.

"[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)

• Foreword: Wisdom in the Scars / Katharine SmartIntroductionFirst WaveGathering CloudsThe Longest MarchLosing TrustReopening MindsEye of the StormSecond WaveIgnoring the SignsBack to SchoolRespecting Our EldersThird WaveMiracles and MudholesVariants of ConcernFourth WaveBest Summer EverThe Dam BreaksFifth WavePutting It MildlyWaving GoodbyeLessons for the Next WaveAcknowledgments; Notes; Index

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.

"[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)

• Foreword: Wisdom in the Scars / Katharine SmartIntroductionFirst WaveGathering CloudsThe Longest MarchLosing TrustReopening MindsEye of the StormSecond WaveIgnoring the SignsBack to SchoolRespecting Our EldersThird WaveMiracles and MudholesVariants of ConcernFourth WaveBest Summer EverThe Dam BreaksFifth WavePutting It MildlyWaving GoodbyeLessons for the Next WaveAcknowledgments; Notes; Index

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.

"[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)

• Foreword: Wisdom in the Scars / Katharine SmartIntroductionFirst WaveGathering CloudsThe Longest MarchLosing TrustReopening MindsEye of the StormSecond WaveIgnoring the SignsBack to SchoolRespecting Our EldersThird WaveMiracles and MudholesVariants of ConcernFourth WaveBest Summer EverThe Dam BreaksFifth WavePutting It MildlyWaving GoodbyeLessons for the Next WaveAcknowledgments; Notes; Index