Huffington Postさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Huffington PostInstagram)「"The ICU feels like a battlefield, where we race from one disaster to the next to put out fires that just keep raging," writes HuffPost guest writer Thanh Neville, M.D., M.S.H.S. "Yes, we’ve seen triumphs, but the sheer volume of COVID-19 patients has overwhelmed any cause to celebrate and sadness is often all I can see."⁠ ⁠ "Even as the next ICU day awaits me, stories from the past few weeks replay in my head," writes Neville. "I can’t stop thinking about the 40-something man who told me, 'I can’t die like this. I just got engaged and have a 6-month-old baby.' I encouraged him to be positive, but that didn’t stop him from dying two weeks later after maximal aggressive care and a desperate attempt at cardiopulmonary resuscitation."⁠ ⁠ "I will never forget trying to comfort the patient who learned that his wife and mother had both died of COVID-19 while he was hospitalized in our unit," Neville says. "When I had to put him on a ventilator a few days later, I cowardly asked my resident to call his children and tell them they should FaceTime with him while they still could. He didn’t survive, and his children lost their father, mother and grandmother in a span of just a few weeks."⁠ ⁠ "I will never forget facilitating a phone call between a husband and wife who had been together since their teenage years. As I was setting up for his intubation, the wife said on speakerphone to her husband, 'You don’t know this, but I just blew you a kiss,' and his last words to her were, 'The kiss actually knocked my socks off. I love you.' After he died, she told me that the crematory was so backed up that it would take weeks before they got to him. She sobbed and said, 'I asked them to put a blanket on him. I am worried that he will be so cold.'”⁠ ⁠ "Death is not an unfamiliar occurrence in the ICU, but COVID deaths feel different — sometimes unnecessary and often profoundly unfair. They say this virus does not discriminate, but I can assure you that is not true. It adversely affects the most vulnerable." Read Neville's full essay at our link in bio. // 📷 Courtesy of Thanh Neville, M.D., M.S.H.S.」2月13日 8時20分