dan renzi is a nurse. he lives in kansas except for right now he lives in new york city because he came to new york city from kansas to help. >> hi. it's me. i'm back home after another night of wild, exciting coronavirus fun on the night shift in new york. when i was in nursing school, i was talking to some friends, and we were going around the group discussing why we all signed up to be a nurse. and honestly, when i signed up for nursing school, i had these visions of myself working for a cosmetic dermatologist or something. you know, i'd go to work, and the real housewives would come in, and they would get a little facial filler and a lot of gossip, and we'd have fun. and if you told me that just not too many years after i graduated that i would be living in a hotel in new york while i was putting bodies in body bags because this mysterious virus was mowing down everybody's grandparents, you know, i just -- how do you process that? and i didn't have to come, but it seemed to me i kind of did. i'm like,

dan renzi is a nurse.sas except for right now he lives in new york city because he came to new york city from kansas to help. >> hi. it's me. i'm back home after another night of wild, exciting coronavirus fun on the

yorkers cheering and clapping, and part of the reason i wanted you to see these dispatches from dan renzi, who you may remember, you may recognize him, from mtv's the real world back in the '90s, you might remember him from then, but part of the reason i wanted you to see these dispatches from him as n-his new life as a nurse coming from kansas to work in new york state, i think we should see from the perspective of a health worker, in his case, from the perspective of a nurse, who wanted his nursing career to be a glamorous real housewives type drama, but instead came to new york to work the night shifts in brooklyn and the bronx to help, i feel like we should all see, not just what the cheering episodes for the health workers look like, to all of us, i feel like we should all see what those feel like to somebody who those cheers are for. >> one of the hardest-hit hospitals in one of the hardest-hit places on earth right now has been saint barnabus hospital in the bronx where i would like you to meet somebody else, here is ernie patty, an emergency room physician at saint barnabus. >> th

and part of the reason i wanted you to see these dispatches from dan renzi who you may remember, recognize him from mtv's "real world" back in the '90s. but part of the reason i wanted you to see these dispatches from him in his new life as a nurse who's come from kansas to work in new york city is because i feel like we all should really see from the perspective of a health worker. in his case, the perspective of a nurse who wanted his career to be a housewife drama. but instead came to new york to hospitals in brooklyn and the bronx to help. i feel like we should all see not just what those cheering episodes for the health workers look like to all of us. i feel like we should all see what those feel like to somebody who those cheers are for. >> everyone's clapping. >> one of the hardest-hit hospitals, in one of the hardest-hit places on earth right now, has been st. barnabas hospital in the bronx, where i would like you to meet someone else. this is ernie patty, he is an emergency room physician at st. barnabas. >> well, the battle continues. the end of another shift. we still have a lar