For MedPage Today's "After the Pandemic" series, we asked our editorial board members to discuss what significant and lasting effects the COVID-19 pandemic will have on medicine and the delivery of healthcare. Here, we interview Beth Darnall, PhD, associate professor in the department of anesthesiology, perioperative, and pain medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and director of the Stanford Pain Relief Innovations Lab in Palo Alto, California. Can you share an anecdote about a patient and how the pandemic affected his or her situation? Darnall: This story is about a person who is not my patient but whose care I am deeply aware of. Her medical emergency was a confluence of the pandemic and the ice storms that occurred in Texas several months ago.