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Just to put this in context, a rare and potentially deadly disease process that has nothing to do with COVID. This serious illness should be treatable. And it may not be because hospitals are full.
My ICU is full tonight. If you called to check, I’d bet your local one is too. https://twitter.com/raw_em_md/status/1328543722137473025
My ICU is full tonight. If you called to check, I’d bet your local one is too. https://twitter.com/raw_em_md/status/1328543722137473025
And your healthcare “heroes” have been crying, screaming into the void, and begging for help for months.
THIS IS WHY.
Grandmas stroke may not be able to get appropriate care because hospitals are full.
Your brothers pancreatic mass may not be able to be removed bc
THIS IS WHY.
Grandmas stroke may not be able to get appropriate care because hospitals are full.
Your brothers pancreatic mass may not be able to be removed bc
surgeries are being postponed because hospitals are full.
Trauma patients who belong in the ICU may end up stuck down in the Emergency Room for days at a time because there are no beds because hospitals are full.
And the most compassionate, dedicated, intelligent, and loving
Trauma patients who belong in the ICU may end up stuck down in the Emergency Room for days at a time because there are no beds because hospitals are full.
And the most compassionate, dedicated, intelligent, and loving
group of professionals on this planet is despondent and in despair because hospitals are full of the sickest and most complex patients we have ever seen. And we do everything we can. We pour our hearts and souls into these patients for weeks and months at a time. We pour medicine
and machines into their care. We put them on heart-lung bypass machines. We put them on kidney replacement machines. And we force blood into their hearts and air into their lungs. And yet the majority of those who get sick will still die. And so will many of the healthcare
professionals taking care of them.
We are going down, and the disease is taking us with it. Physically and emotionally. We are sinking. This is what quicksand feels like.
We are screaming for help. We have been screaming for help. We are asking for backup that we know isn’t
We are going down, and the disease is taking us with it. Physically and emotionally. We are sinking. This is what quicksand feels like.
We are screaming for help. We have been screaming for help. We are asking for backup that we know isn’t
coming. There is no relief in sight. None.
The healthcare professionals you call heroes will be a threatened species soon. Because we have not received support from a country that claims to care about us.
I can’t sit with that reality for more than a few seconds or I
The healthcare professionals you call heroes will be a threatened species soon. Because we have not received support from a country that claims to care about us.
I can’t sit with that reality for more than a few seconds or I
will start crying. And I can’t do that because I have work to do.
Deep breath. Roll up my sleeves one more time so that I can try to pull your loved ones and myself out of the quicksand.
Here we go.
Deep breath. Roll up my sleeves one more time so that I can try to pull your loved ones and myself out of the quicksand.
Here we go.
