tv Witness Pandemic 19 Al Jazeera February 19, 2023 2:30am-3:01am AST
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the evidence. we know the legal standards and there is no doubt. these are crimes against humanity. emergency crews, inter kia, have rescued a couple with their child in our ty it on saturday. 13 days after the earthquakes, the victims were trapped under the rubble for 296 hours, but the baby later died in hospital to does. he has expounded european trade union confederation efficient from the country for taking part in a protest against president chi's sides policies. thousands demonstrated across tennessee on friday. they accused the president of stifling basic freedoms and blame him for a worsening economy. the powerful trade union has criticized the recent crackdown
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me. i jinny. brady, i am a pulmonary and critical care physician. i was born and raised in new york city in a lifeline as yankee. i am currently having a long stretch of work in the i to you or i week street in and happens coincided with the emergence of krona virus or boston. and it's something that i think raises a lot of uncertainty and fear amongst it over there practicing because we
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just there are so many unknowns. we don't know how bad it's going to be in march 20th about one and then fairly california. and it was another comb day today our patient volumes at the very low and the philos jones. great. we are running a little bit low on teaching yourself and was unable to find an adult mask that i've got this pretty switch kids master where they're not the best at birth. i get the job done. i
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am, i am an e r physician and i work at a couple community hospital just outside boston full time student. right now i'm getting my m b a from mit. and so what that really means is that i'm in classes monday to thursday, essentially are in the week and i work on the weekends. and so things have been pretty 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 ah, me. container looks like a small lunch box and has my name. my name on it.
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this is my and 95 that i'm going to be using in the 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 co, even though about half the patients i saw definitely had it. and that's because are low on tasks, then 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 1st death, likely from coded super sad story. was a 65 year old male who was walking and talking earlier tonight,
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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 your loved one 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 all think we sort of like compartment allies and shut off terribleness of it and connect just enough to have empathy one when talking to the families and i think, you know,
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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 there's an appropriate balance of being in touch with your emotions, but not too much that you're crying over every patient to me, but everyone's on. there's like patient, i'll touch you and you don't know why maybe you like the family. maybe the patients hands reminded your dad or take 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 turn this off me here, new york might be getting a little bit what they're saying. see my mom all the time. she lives in new york city and i go down once a month to see or,
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and i haven't been able to see her. it's always hard to air and get sick. my car wrote down on sunday and i called triple a. and to play. have you been in contact with somebody who you know has chrome i was like no because i knew i say yes, the not gonna come help me with my car. so its saturday, april 4th just finished a shift and volumes are still very low in the emergency room across the multiple sites that i work at in the bay area. so another interesting development i am going to try to go to new york city to see if i can get a little cms job. i think that this time is emergency medicines,
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spotlight i and it be kind of a shame to not see what what is going on in new york city new. 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 we're not going pain. and the patients, yes, there that with the whole thing is just really crazy. nurses are really unhappy with the short staff providers because sick patients are waiting for
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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 trying to come back on our ours 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 today was busy regardless, so i'm glad to be done. i got an hour drive ahead of me. thankfully there is no traffic, i guess that's why the most positive things i can think of in this entire situation . me finish taking off all this for so long in some coffee right now.
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so just finished nature. one really quick and see i think that should ended with a terrible death. so it's always like every patient is blah blah, blah, year old blah blah. sheer with respiratory failure from chrome. it just can be a little bit not today. we had a patient come in, who was included in the emergency room. and down i was putting in a central line internet in a real artery line in her wrist. and while i was doing it,
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the nurse was going through her belongings and came across a sandwich in her bed. airbag belong, it's like this woman locked into the emergency room. thought i might have to wait a while, so i should get a sandwich and got a sandwich. and now is on life support without family around her because we're not allowing families in it all. suddenly i look at her and like saw her as a person instead of just a patient with grown a virus. monday, april 13th, 0930 at night. and i just got home. 2 weeks ago i was kind of like bummed out that none of my patients had gotten better. and that is, this is a long haul to recovery and i looked back. last ain't those patients says,
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i think i signed up 10 peers heights. none of them have gotten better. some are so live, but love them have gotten better. this just wild, slight scary thing. or it's are going to have 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 a cupboard 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
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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 the a 95 and tv and our time 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. our contract and cove it but who knows? i might have been positive at some point in the past. i might have been through it . i don't know. i'm generally much more careful now. i've been very good at putting on
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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, fascinating, fascinating on us. 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 given this is, rose is my esteemed colleague. theme very
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i have very, very exciting news to share. today. april 19th, i estimated to he's 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. and already updated them. so they weren't expecting another phone call. and i said, we just activated your dad and he's doing great. and the genuine joy
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on the other end of the line and they're like oh 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 of the formed ah, nat felt great and
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limited. i it's april 30th, 2020 and i have my next shift tomorrow on friday. um. but i just found out that its 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 right. just speak has 30 not in the 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 work at. although sherman i hear from them any minute. they're cancelling my chefs as well. next week. i just can't believe at a time when we have a we're in the middle of the bay as health crisis for generation. and me as an
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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. me regular for an hour job id love this place. i can't believe that to mars and my last day it's heartbreaking but yes, it's rough times for of a i had a couple days or 2. my patients died
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showed that he'll die, but also might feel uncomfortable teachers to take it off and her son went in she passed away pretty immediately and i guess it's good to die alone. 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 and to see $3.00 to $4.00 patients in each. one of them is pretty wild also in my 2 weeks here. we have only treated one caucasian patient.
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i think more than half of our population, a spanish speaking i i think that goes to speak, how much of this disease burdens ah, multi generational households and the poorer populations in manhattan and where we are and burdens a people that cannot socially distance burdens. but people that are unable to work from home i thanks for tuning in. it's may 8th, 2020. to start off with, i'll say that i had the file for unemployment. yesterday i did that. it was just crazy. i've never even considered that as being a possibility and i career as an emergency room physician. that's the one thing we
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joke about. we say job security when somebody does anything stupid because theoretically that's true, this is really interesting because i've devoted so much of my time to helping to educate patients into understanding when they need to come to the emergency room when they don't. and i pride myself on that 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 months. people who are coming cuz they want pregnancy test. those people pay me
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he got his hi today is thursday. may, 14th, i've had like, are richer up few days and i feel like i probably should've 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 1234. today is thursday, june a letter to go probably put an 80 hours a week for the past 2 weeks and 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 out and help out where i'm able to. he hands m grateful. just my family is healthy and
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june 17th. it is a late engage a patient who got really, really sick one. it felt like she was going to die. she did miss, she was on the news today are being built and hold talking about her experience said 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 like non rennes. we've had so many debts to me. awful dad, there is easier. remember those people and kind of feel awake? yeah, we went through this battle, this war, but like,
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