Trauma Medical Director at Denver Health. Dad, husband, mediocre musician and ceramicist, surgery dept palliative care guy. Master of muffins and meditation.
New Tonight: Disturbing video from @WBFO in Buffalo, NY shows an elderly man walk up to police in riot gear. An officer shoves the man...he falls backwards, hits his head...starts bleeding immediately...motionless.
Why did this happen @BPDAlerts ?
This is "Good Friday 2020" by Polish Jesuit Vyacheslav Okun, who is a professor of philosophy at the Jesuit Ignatian University in Krakow and also at the Vatican.
PLEASE help change language used by reporters when patients die in the hospital during this crisis. They DID NOT "die alone". They were surrounded by dedicated staff who fought valiantly for them in their last days, and stood in for family at the end. #wordsmatter@tmprowell
This is so important. We do not allow people to die alone ... please acknowledge the professional healthcare workers who lose a little bit of themselves every time a patient dies. We are there for our patients at their final hours. @traumadoctors@EAST_TRAUMA#COVID19
Yesterday, got badged and thrown into the ‘cold’ zone. Yikes. I have been doing EM for ..a lot if years. Not prepared for this. NY is so resilient! Patients everywhere. Monitor alarms, everyone in full gear. Nights tonight: Hot Zone
I am being redeployed.
Full of mixed emotions. I want to help but scared. Scared of getting COVID and that I am NOT as good as my younger self during the AIDS crisis, 9/11, or the Boston bombing.
I know I can do this. Someone has to be on the #frontline. Let’s beat #COVID19!
Yesterday was one of the hardest days in my 25+ years of being a physician. I’ve worked through HIV/AIDS & opioid epidemics. But #COVID19 is decimating our health care system. PPE is so scarce. Physicians are scared. Patients are scared & dying alone. We have so little to offer.
The spread of COVID-19 has led to the harmful spread of stigma & misinformation. Like any other virus, no identity, community, ethnic, or racial group is more at risk for getting or spreading COVID-19. Help stop #stigma by learning and sharing the facts. https://t.co/DjO7nrtGi3