Before the new coronavirus hit New York City, Dr. S focused mainly on treating patients with diabetes in a hospital in Brooklyn. Now, she finds herself working in a COVID-only facility.
. In this installment, I spoke to Dr. S, a 35-year-old endocrinologist based in Brooklyn. She requested anonymity because she didn't seek permission from her hospital to speak with the press, so we changed her name and aren’t naming her employer.
The NBA got suspended, Tom Hanks got infected. That’s when everything started to get taken more seriously. And when my hospital started to bring up that, Okay, we might be changing our practice a little bit. What are some of the biggest differences between what you were doing before and what you’re doing now?
So it’s not that all of the medical issues themselves are urgent, but you feel like you want to care for the patient that much more urgently because you just want to get them out [of the hospital].Yeah, it literally looks like a scene out of a movie. It looks like a movie set. Everyone’s gowned up and you feel like,You want to go to the emergency room, but it’s a five-minute procedure to gown up and put goggles on and mask after mask. And when you get in there, everyone is in the same thing.
On days like this, you go home to them for their silliness—it just brings joy to your life. And so it’s been tremendously life-changing at home. I miss them a ton. It would be one thing if you knew when it was going to end, but I have no idea when I’m going to see them. They’re with my parents and I love my parents to death and they’re obviously going to take amazing care of them. But I’ve never left my kids ever before, so it was tough for us.
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