24 Hours Inside a Brooklyn Hospital

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🗓️ 15 April 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Note: This episode contains strong language. More than a month since the onset of the coronavirus crisis, the majority of patients — some of whom are doctors themselves — in Brooklyn Hospital Center’s critical care unit have Covid-19. With permission from staff, patients and their families, we shadowed one doctor for a day to get a sense of what it is like on the front lines of the pandemic. Guest: Sheri Fink, a correspondent for The New York Times covering public health, who spoke with Dr. Josh Rosenberg and his colleagues at Brooklyn Hospital Center’s intensive care unit. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading: Test kits and protective gear have been in short supply, doctors are falling sick, and every day gets more difficult. But the staff at Brooklyn Hospital Center keeps showing up.On their shifts, medical workers throughout the hospital face unrelenting chaos. At one point while our reporter shadowed, three “codes” — emergency interventions when someone is on the brink of death — occurred at once.

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0:00.0	So every morning in the intensive care unit at the Brooklyn Hospital Center, the doctors
0:11.3	gather for something called morning report.
0:13.9	So now I want you all to present it very clearly.
0:18.9	The people who were on overnight, they stand around and the head doctor is there and they
0:24.6	kind of give a report of what happened and then the new doctors who are coming on, they
0:29.3	get that information.
0:30.3	She at one, she was at rest this morning, she was being 23, she's very comfortable,
0:34.6	thumbs up.
0:35.6	They talk about, you know, who was admitted, who got critically ill.
0:39.9	So overnight patient was not doing well, so she has to be re-intimated almost immediately.
0:47.1	And one recent morning report was particularly intense.
0:50.7	Okay, all right, okay.
0:55.1	Next patient got a report.
0:56.1	We're patients in their 80s and patients in their 30s.
1:00.6	There were patients from nursing homes and patients who were homeless.
1:12.1	We're in the way to overnight, she's on a zip her license, lock it on some track.
1:18.4	Patients with asthma and diabetes and patients with no underlying conditions at all.
1:22.4	But as the doctors race to get through the cases, they all shared a nearly identical description.
1:34.5	Okay, next.
1:35.5	They'll look here, box with throat failure, secondary confirmed COVID.
1:40.5	All right, next.
1:41.5	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bobaro.
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