Headlines Don’t Capture the Horror We Saw
You likely know that the number of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 is surging across the country. But headlines from distant states do not capture the horror of a hospital without enough intensive-care beds. I was an anesthesiology resident in a large academic medical center at the peak of the pandemic in New York City this spring.During a time when journalists had little access to what was happening inside New York hospitals, I wrote regular email updates to friends and family.