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Talat Chughtai, Director of the Trauma Intensive Care Unit at Hamad General Hospital, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about treating COVID-19

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4.6917 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Talat Chughtai, Director of the Trauma Intensive Care Unit at Hamad General Hospital, talks to Jonathan Kay about COVID-19, the triage decisions he's having to make and what we've learnt from China about how best to treat it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Colette Podcast. My name is Claire Lehman and I am editor and chief of Colette.

0:08.0

Colette is where Free Thought lives. We are an independent grassroots platform for heterodox ideas and fearless commentary.

0:15.3

Our podcast is a team effort and is jointly hosted by myself,

0:18.8

associate editor Toby Young and Canadian editor Jonathan Kay. You can support our podcast by

0:24.2

visiting Patreon.com forward slash quilette and becoming a monthly patron. By

0:29.1

becoming a monthly patron you'll also receive our weekly newsletter.

0:33.0

Welcome to the Quillett Podcast.

0:35.0

I'm Jonathan Kay.

0:36.0

In this episode, you're going to hear from an intensive care unit, Doctor,

0:40.0

who's on the front line in the war against COVID-19, or what the media sometimes call

0:45.2

coronavirus. But first, just a little bit of background information. I graduated from

0:50.7

Sown House High School in Montreal more than 30 years ago.

0:54.3

My class was small, only about 40 people.

0:57.2

But some of my classmates went on to do amazing things.

1:00.1

The graduate from our class who's probably done the most to make the world a better place is

1:04.3

Tallate Chug Thai, who made a name for himself as a world-renowned thoracic surgeon here in Canada

1:09.8

and now serves as director of the Trauma Intensive Care Unit, or ICU at Hamad General Hospital in Qatar.

1:17.0

Those three letters, ICU, are on everyone's mind right now, because ICUs are where the most severely

1:23.8

afflicted COVID-19 cases end up, often hooked up to life-saving ventilators.

1:28.7

And in some parts of the world, such as Italy, doctors have had to make tragic choices about which patients

1:34.8

get spots in the ICU and which do not.

1:38.0

ICU capacity and policy, in other

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