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I spent nearly two hours this morning with my patient in a COVID room. The patient was intubated, sedated, chemically paralyzed & the room was silent lest for the hum

Patients with COVID don’t get better in a linear pattern. They don’t get suddenly ill then slowly improve like most diseases.They get deathly ill, barely survive, improve a little, decline

"Did you know that healthcare workers can just quit? They can just quit. If the job gets too overwhelming, they can just quit and go home. They're not obligated to

I don’t know if people realize that COVID ICU patients right now are sicker than, have every tube/medication/intervention as & are as unstable as our **very sickest & most unstable

I want to clarify something. My unit split back in March when COVID hit - some of the staff choosing to rotate through our self made COVID ICU, the other

If you want to know how we get people to comply with wearing face masks, ask a sexologist. It’s not our first rodeo when it comes to convincing people they

A doctor on a podcast I heard today spoke about how awful COVID is because patients die alone. She said doctors assess from hallways & families don't get to visit.

What is something you feel the general lay public hasn’t or doesn’t understand (or hasn’t had made clear to them) about COVID, the pandemic, lockdown, the future, etc? Mine is