Medicine – The Grey Bridge between Life and Death

As I put my white coat on and started reviewing charts, dozens of patients were dying at my Hospital in Queens. New York City was a Pandemic Epicenter, and the speakers kept frankly announcing “Rapid Response Team” and “Code Blue” calls about 30 times per 12-hour shift, sometimes with 3 Cardiorespiratory arrests happening simultaneously on different floors. Overworked providers desperately tried to save patients as Covid-19 killed New Yorkers from all ages and ethnicities. Refrige rated trucks were parked by the Hospital, keeping the bodies cold as our morgue struggled to handle the intake of the dead.
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - Category: Palliative Care Authors: Tags: Humanities: Art, Language, and Spirituality in Health Care Source Type: research