In a haunting letter to his friends and colleagues, a Columbia University surgeon describes how coronavirus has forced doctors to ration care for very sick patients who don't have the virus, but still need medical procedures.
In a haunting letter to his friends and colleagues, a Columbia University surgeon describes how coronavirus has forced doctors to ration care for very sick patients who don't have the virus, but still need medical procedures.
"We have had to make decisions that I personally have never had to contemplate before," wrote Dr. Emile Bacha, director of the pediatric and congenital cardiac surgery at Columbia University Irving Medical Center."We have had to ration care and make decisions about who is considered an urgent or emergent case." Bacha explains that nurses have been deployed to care for coronavirus patients, and that safety gear is scarce.
In Oklahoma, there's an executive order to postpone all elective surgeries. Baxter measures her daughter's oxygen levels several times a day and hopes that all will be well until the pandemic passes. "It's a very, very scary time," she said.
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