As "Grey's Anatomy" patriarch Richard Webber watches N95-clad nurses turn the cafeteria into a makeshift COVID-19 unit, the former chief of surgery said, "I have never seen anything like this."
"We're doing our best, but this is the first time in my career I'm not sure that's enough," he said. "Pretty soon we're gonna start losing our own. Not to the disease, but to the toll it's taking. I fear this will hurt us in a way we can't even begin to understand." An Oklahoma ER and ICU nurse called me alongside her mom, crying as she described her anxiety of contracting COVID-19 through her torn, reused masks and transmitting it to her loved ones. Another ICU nurse in Michigan said she's often theOne nurse in Illinois who had cancer told me she quit her job after 42 years because she feared for her safety. .
Characters in "Grey's Anatomy" echoed some of these experiences. Surgeons treating COVID-19 patients like Meredith Grey and Miranda Bailey talk to their kids through phone cameras while they isolate in hotels. Half of the hospital's new interns quit after one day. Protagonist Meredith Grey knocked over equipment and sobbed after watching her patient die in the COVID-19 intensive care unit while his wife of 62-years waited outside.
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