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A handful of you know that I have been moonlighting in the Covid ICU. I’ve learned a decade worth of intensive care medicine in a couple of months… I’ve seen some wild things that I thought I would never see… But really the biggest take away from all of this for me has been
how overworked, underpaid, and underappreciated our medicine ICU doctors and nurses are. I don’t like the term hero especially not in the context of Covid… But these people are literal heroes. They have been going for months on end with minimal time off providing excellent care
to the sickest population of critically ill patients that any of us have ever seen in our lifetimes. They are physically and emotionally exhausted. They have been doing this now for a year. There’s no sign of it stopping in fact it’s only going to get worse. And they still have
enough courage, passion, discipline, and dedication to risk their own well-being and continue coming into work every day. I’ve had some really long conversations with very senior nurses who are for the first time after 30 years at the bedside considering leaving medicine
altogether. These folks have seen the very worst of the worst, have carried the heaviest weight that you can imagine. And they are still here. The selfless dedication to their coworkers and their patience is beyond my ability to properly express it. If you ever want to be truly
Humbled, go ask a medicine ICU nurse how they are holding up these days.
Please join me in raising a glass and toasting those amongst us who are doing an impossible job with enormous grace
Please join me in raising a glass and toasting those amongst us who are doing an impossible job with enormous grace
