I am a doctor and that's what is the most devastating about Covid now
The story of a doctor from the stage in the hospital - and in his city - during the current wave has become viral.
While millions of people around the world have suffered difficulties following the coronavirus pandemic, there are few people who witnessed the tragedy of the first-hand tragedy as health workers. Now, likeThe current overvoltage is far outstanding the worst days of the initial wave of the pandemic, health professionals areagain to feel overwhelmed by what they see every day.The New York Timesrecently reported thatDoctors leave their jobs at fast ratesAnd a message from a doctor to his friend became viral to simply explain how "devastating" the "disconnect" on the new thrust of Covid is.
In a tweet on November 15, actor and writerJune Diane Raphael Posted a screenshot of a text message she has received from her best friend who works as aPulmonary doctor and criticism. His warning Stark is being shared on social media, grenourizing more than 54,000 retweets as of November 16th. Read more about its history of front lines of the pandemic and regions of the country that act, check outsideThese are all states locked again.
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"I'm waiting at least half of them die."
"Tomorrow will be my 10th day working straight", "the doctor, identified like Kate G, explained in the text to his best friend." We are completely removed. I wear sicker patients than ever in my career. They are almost all Covid. "
The doctor was frank on the emotional and mental strain she feels accordingly. "I'm expecting at least half of them die, but probably not for an average of 1 to 3 weeks (they will spend alone in the hospital)," she explained. "I have to call their families and update them daily. I sobbed on the phone with a mother with whom I have to update her daughter who will probably die." And for more about how your region deals with the pandemic, discoverWhat is the gravity of the COVID epidemic in your state.
"We are physically exhausted physically, emotionally and mentally."
The doctor also stated that work conditions are tragically related to the way people treat the pandemic outside the hospital. "We are overflowing from our units. We are short of staff. We are physically, emotionally and mentally exhausted," she described. "But] people here do not wear masks, they have family dinners Sunday, going to church, planning Thanksgiving." And for more information on the most risky locations you could visit, discoverThese are the 6 worst places where you go now, a new study indicates.
"I go home stunned by a city from a college with lines on the doors of local bars."
In one of the most stopped parties of the message, the doctor broke out on how the general public's behavior flies in the face of the tough advice and work of the medical community.
"There is such a disconnection between the hospital and the surrounding communities. I do not leave the hospital with bells, whistles and pots and stoves," she says, referring to the daily tradition at the beginning of the Pandemic of the public pandemic thanking the essential workers with 19h encourage their windows, their balconies and their porches. Instead, she described, "I'm going home Abasourdia through a city of a college with lines of the doors for local bars." And for more updates on Covid and more,Sign up for our daily newsletter.
"This is devastating."
In the end, the health worker has made an exasperated wish for the general public to change their way. "People complain about their limited personal freedoms and mental effects of social distancing and the portion of a mask ... but do not respect the right to live from others and do not think the mental effects of infection accidental and killing grandmother or trauma that they are imposing on their health workers, "wrote the doctor." This is devastating. "And for more about what to watch with Covid, checkIf you notice these 3 strange symptoms, you can have COVID, the study says.
