A 47-year-old gentleman presents to the emergency department at some point in December 2019 complaining of sudden onset, intense abdominal pain. He’s worked up by the A&E doctors where an…
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“I think, very important, the young people and people of good health, and groups of people, just are not strongly affected.” Donald J. Trump, March 2020 The line was delivered…
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DO NOT CROSS RED LINE UNLESS IN FULL PPE (PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT)
We’re out of tie-back surgical caps, so I’m wearing a hairnet that makes me look like… -
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“Hey is that the ICU outreach on-call? It’s Jenny, one of the respiratory ward doctors,” you begin.
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“We need a bed.” Even Jonny can’t muster an upbeat tone eleven hours into a night shift. He’s the ICU doctor on outreach tonight, the link between the wards and our ivory tower.
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“They all keep dying.”
I look up at Nico, surprised. The grizzled Bulgarian has been an ICU nurse for longer than i’ve been a doctor and I didn’t expect to hear the emotion in his voice.