In their own words, doctors and nurses in New York, the epicenter of the COVID-19 crisis in the U.S., chronicle their experiences.
As the coronavirus spread through New York City this month, doctors and nurses saw and heard things they had never encountered before — waiting rooms filled with hospital beds, growing death tallies, one colleague after another falling ill.
I was thinking about my first death. It was a couple of weeks ago. And we were not allowing families into the rooms, so I wanted to let this man’s family see him before he died. So I put my own phone into a Ziploc bag and used FaceTime to talk to his wife. His heart stopped, and we did CPR for literally 45 minutes. And the attending doctor said, “Well, I think it’s time we stop.” And I said, “Don’t stop. Just one more.” That note made it impossible to stop. So we kept fighting. But he died anyway.I had a patient who was trending in the right direction. And then Saturday morning, he became acutely sick. Just like that. His fever spiked to 104. He had been fighting fevers, but nothing this high. His blood pressure suddenly shot down.
I remember three or four weeks ago, I was biking to the hospital ... and I saw the radiologist crossing in front of me in the crosswalk. And now he is dead.Everyday, I get a list of patients who died at Mount Sinai. Usually, it’s one or two names. It was 20 today ... 20. That is so striking and so terrible.On Monday, I got in a little trouble because I gave a body bag away from my unit to some nurses who needed one. Our unit had started with 10 on Friday. By Sunday we were down to 6.
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