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i, with meeting with melanie banks, the artwork highlighting violence against women and girls, has been availed in the u. k. the work titled valentine's day massacre were up mascara, pardon me, was painted on a wall in the city of margate. now the mural depicts a caricature image of an 1900 fifties housewife, pushing a man into a freezer. the women issue to be smiling despite having a small lanai and a missing tooth. just hours after the work was and bow local authorities removed the freezer, saying posed a safety risk. ah,
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your geology 0 with me, so horrible in doha reminder of our top news stories, millions of people into kia and syria are in desperate need of a central supplies following to devastating earthquakes last week. united nations as 99000000 series have been effected. dozens of aid organizations on the ground, they have called for better access and a massive scale up in assistance to cues, president says last week's earthquakes were as big as atomic bombs, which update again has defended his decision making. after his government was accused of being slow to respond to hard hit areas who jimmy's also should. what year should the country has been shaken with 2 earthquakes for the scale and intensity that has never been seen? and now history. we have seen the 2 biggest disasters in the history of the turkish
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republic, one after another since the earthquake in as inc and 1939. do you know that the patriarch jenin topper, which is a disaster, happened in an area closer to the surface compared to other earthquakes and now history good. and this increased the effect of the disruption it brought an energy equal to hundreds of tao forward hammock bombs. rescue work has continued to find some survives inter kit, a 77. your woman was rescued from the rubble of being trapped for more than 200 hours in the amount of these ukraine says, russian forces have bombarded troops and towns in the eastern to that region. it what appears to be a new offensive, but ukraine's troops of repelled attacks around the frontline city of buffalo town called russian losses in the nearby town. i've used up for ministers from the united states, germany, france, italy, and the u. k. have issued a joint statement condemning israel's decision to formalize 9 illegal settlements. israel security cabinet said this was in response to
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a series of attacks unoccupied. east jerusalem. 3 people have died after franklin gabrielle hit new zealand, and what the prime minister says cause the worst damage in a generation. the storm has weakened and is moving away. potential rain and high winds cold floods and landslides, the national state emergency has been declared. those were the headlines i will be back with more news and half my here on out there. next, it's witness pandemic 19 to stay with us. how do you say consoled information? moscow is one of the most avail, within the world, and has read of, of facial recognition technology. how does the narrative improve public opinion? no wonder how is citizens generally than we breaking the video? read like, while they denied the platform more in your brain, the listening post dissects the media. we don't cover the move, we cover the way the news is cover.
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ah ah, some i am a pulmonary and critical care physician. i was born and raised in new york city in a lifetime abbey yankees, an i'm currently on the long stretch of work in the i to you or i week street and happens to coincide with the emergence of krona virus here in boston. and it's something that i think
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raises a lot of uncertainty and fear amongst it over there practicing because there are so many unknowns. we don't know how bad it's going to be in march 21 and then fairly california and it was another comb day. today our patient volumes at the very low and the philos. jose, great. we are running a little bit low on teaching yourself and i was unable to find an adult mask that i've got this pretty switch kids master where they're not the best at her birth.
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i get the job done. i am, i am an e r physician and i work at a couple community hospital just outside boston myself full time student right now i am getting my m b a from mit. and so what that really means is that i'm in classes monday to thursday, essentially during the week and i work on the weekends. and so things have been pre crazy the last few weeks and unfortunate that i have these breaks in between my shift, my next shift as tomorrow. and so it's really hard to know what to expect in the
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container. looks like a small lunch box and has my name. my name on it. this is my and 95 that i'm going to be using be entire at least the entire week. maybe longer. i was doing a lot of research today trying to find out if there were specific guidelines and of course, because it's a pretty new virus. there aren't a whole lot of published guidelines available. so it's, if you do what you think is best and hopefully i did what's best for my patients. interestingly enough finance as a single person today for her, even though about half the patients i saw definitely had it. and that's because her won't ask them none of them required admissions or mit or met the criteria that we look for it's march 30th about midnight and i just had my
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1st death likely from coded super sad story. it was a 65 year old male who was walking and talking earlier tonight, but had been complaining of some short of breath recently with new visitor policies in the hospital. it's really, really difficult. you have to go to family and say at your level and has just died, but you cannot visit them right now. i think that as things ramp up, it's going to have a much different much crazier events will change and it's going to feel much different than the emergency room new the in know, we sort of like compartment allies and shut off the terribleness of it and connect
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just enough to have empathy one when talking to the families and i think, you know, if you really took every case and every death to heart, it'd be impossible to do the job that we do. so i think that's like a coping mechanism. and i think it, there is an appropriate balance of being in touch with your emotions, but not too much that you're crying over every patient you can't to but everyone to, there's like a patient i'll touch you and you don't know why. maybe you like the family, maybe the patients hands reminded your dad or whatever it is. it does like often connect to your core and you feel this sort of emotion. and this lump in your throat and water in your eyes and you're like, i've turned it off me here. new york might be getting
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a little bit what they're saying. i see my mom all the time. she lives in new york city and i go down once a month to see her and i haven't been able to see her so it's hard to air gear and get sick. my car wrote down on sunday and i called triple a and 2 boys says they have you been in contact with somebody who you know has chrome i was like no because i knew i say yes, they're not gonna cover calvin with my car. so it's saturday, april 4th, just finished a shift yann's mom. volumes are still very low in the emergency room across the multiple sites that are work out in the bay area. so another interesting
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development i am going to try to go to new york city to see if i can get a locals job. i think that this time is emergency medicines, spotlight i and it be kind of a shame to not see what what is going on in new york city with like i said earlier, i am feeling very fortunate that i am not full time anymore. i can see my colleagues just really drained and everyone's very aggravated with the whole shift changes because we are not working as much. and so, and i can pain and
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a patients. yes there. so the whole thing is just really crazy. nurses are really unhappy with the short staff providers because sick patients are waiting for a really long time, even though we have enough people theory at theoretically, just more setting doctors home early in. the whole thing is just crazy, but they're trying to cut back on her hours because i guess we're expensive and they're not. you know, hospitals not making any money off of the elective surgeries, but i felt like they was busy regardless. so i'm glad to be done. anyways, i got an hour ish drive ahead of me. thankfully there is no traffic, i guess that's why the most positive things i can think of this entire situation. me finish taking off all this for
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so long in some coffee. right. now so just finished nature, the launch really long and and see i think that should end. it was a terrible death. so it's always like so i thought every patient is blah blah blah, year old blah blah. sheer with respiratory failure from chrome 1st. it just can be a little bit not today we had a patient come in who was interested in the emergency room. and i was putting in a central line and her name and her real artery line and
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her wrist. and while i was doing it, the nurse was going to her belongings and came across a sandwich in her bad air bag of belong in like this woman locked into the emergency room. thought i might have to wait awhile. so i should get assemblage and got her fail. it now is on life support without family around her because we're not allowing families in how suddenly i looked at her and like saw her as a person instead of just a patient with corona virus. monday, april 13th, 0930 at night. and i just got home 2 weeks ago. i was kind of
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like um now that none of my patients had gotten better and that is this a long haul to recovery and i looked back. last aint those patients says, i think i signed up 10 peas. hanks. none of them have gotten better. some are so live but love them have gotten better. this is just wild slate. scary thing. all right, so going to give a little bit longer of an update of where i am, how i got here and what's been going on. so i am currently working in
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a coated unit. it's in the washington heights neighborhood of manhattan. this unit was set up about 2 weeks ago. it's set up in not in the main hospital. we're currently in the lobby of the hospital. i'm not sure if the hospitals in california were doing quite as openly but we were trusting family members off with with a 95 and p v. and allowing that thumb to come and visit which which is incredibly necessary. ah ours we all we have, i pads next to all the bad so patients can face time if they don't have their own phones. ah me. i definitely feel a little bit nervous that contract and cove it but who knows? i might have been positive at some point in the past. i might have been through it
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. i don't know. i'm generally much more careful now. i've been very good at putting on a mask and not touching it while it's on. and i think i yes, it's definitely when somebody touches their face, i think i touch my face earlier in this video, but it's definitely, i notice that i really wanted to see more and understand co good. it's a fascinating, fascinating illness. and i've only been in the past few days getting to understand a little bit understanding how it's changing our practice of medicine. was that one
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given this is, rose is my esteemed colleague. theme very i have very, very exciting news to share. today. april 19th, i estimated who he yes. ah, which is awesome. is awesome. i have been working like a dog on service for weeks and weeks and weeks and had not activated a single page. and i actually needed to today, which was really and i call 1st ring family member picks up everything. okay. i already updated them. so they weren't expecting
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another phone call. and i said, we're sex to be your dad. and he's doing great. and the genuine joy on the other end of the line and the like i this is the best news i heard in weeks . thank you. thank you. you know that we can the yeah, nothing unbelievable is just oh really good to deliver that newness on and your patients are paying for their lives and we're fighting for them. but these family members are home fighting and praying and do everything they can to will their loved ones. and you could just hear the relief on the other end. the foamed. ah natal, great did
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i is april 30th, 2020 and i have my next shift tomorrow on friday. i'm but i just found out that it's my last chest at this hospital, which is also that i've been working for for years. just found out that they are cutting all rushes speak, has 30 not enough volume dealer and a mac, and they can't give me any more shifts for an indefinite amount of time. i'm. i'm in a bit of a disbelief. i'm really upset about it and to stay for that. i have another hospital that i worked at. although sherman to hear from them any minute, they're cancelling my chefs as well. next week. i just can't believe at
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a time when we have a we're in the middle of the bay as health crisis for generation. and me as an e. r doctor has suddenly left in a position where i don't have a job and i'm worried about my rent. i mean, i'm a, some more fortunate than one of the people in terms of my training in terms of you know, what i do right now. i don't feel that way. maybe i have to move to a smaller place so i can't afford it. i don't know when i'm in again more shifted as hospital again. maybe i can look for another job id love this place. i can't believe that tomorrow's me wednesday. it's heartbreaking but yes,
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it's rough time survey. i had 2 days to my patients that was pretty young. she is and i rather called the son to come to be with her mom was back for joseph oxygen. her son was waiting outside the room period is a window like the last moment of his mom. and she wanted to be with him. so she asked if she could take off we
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take the oxygen off. i show that he'll die, but also might feel uncomfortable. she chose to take it off and her son went in. she passed away pretty immediately and i guess it's been too long. so in the past few days, i've got to walk around the hospital and visit some things. and i visited the operating rooms which have turned into intensive care units. and this is one of the craziest things that i've seen. each operating room contains 3 to 4 ventilated patients. so an operating room generally is not meant for any more than one patient
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. and to see 3 to 4 patients in each. one of them is pretty wild also in my 2 weeks here. we have only treated one caucasian patient. i think more than half of our population has spanish speaking. i think that goes to speak. how much of this disease burdens multigenerational households and the poor population in mid out and, and where we are. and 3rd of the people that cannot socially distance burdens the people that are unable to work from home. i thanks for tuning in. it may 8th, 2020 to start off with the file for unemployment.
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yesterday i did that, which is crazy. never even considered that being a possibility in my career as an emergency room physician, that's the one thing we joke about. we say job security. when somebody does anything stupid, because theoretically that's true, this is really interesting because as so voted so much of my time to helping to educate patients into understanding women needs to come to the emergency room when they don't. and i pride myself on my i focus so i am, i'm proud that i have retained a lot of that from my training in canada and been one week that has been turned upside down. and now i'm realizing that i get paid by those people. i get paid by the people who don't need to be in the emergency room. i get paid by the people who have a sore throat for a months. people who are coming because i want a pregnancy test. those people pay me through
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you guys. hi. today is thursday, may 14th, i have like are really few days and i feel like i probably should have been recording during it, but it's still ongoing. so home around, fill in really, really burned out. ah, really tired today is monday may 18 work was insane on friday and he was absolutely not. ah, 1234. today is thursday, june a letter to go probably put an 80 hours a week for the past 2 weeks. i am no longer able to sleep until like night am. i'm super grateful that i love my job and emergency medicine and that i'm able to come
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out and help out where i'm able to. and ah, grateful just. my family is healthy. and she said in here it is a late engage a patient who got really, really sick wondering, felt like she was gonna die. she did miss, she was on the news today are being built and hold talking about her experiences. talking out that dr. lee told her that she was going to be cut into a coma and put her daughter on the phone as like a speech. but not really good to see somebody in the window leave. so many of like non rennes. we've had so many debts to me. awful data,
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their plight emitted from history kept alive only in the family. tales of those who survived. it's hard to believe for people who didn't said the astonishing story of the polish women and children who endured the siberian glass and sought refuge in africa, never to return again. an epic odyssey of resilience memory is our homeland on al jazeera ah. from the al jazeera london rural car center, to people in thoughtful conversation, i can be in my culture. i can still raise my voice against patriarchy with no host,
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