View from the Frontline
A day in the life of an emergency medicine physician preparing for the coronavirus Meeta Shah, MD, is an emergency medicine physician and associate chief medical informatics officer at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. She assisted in developing a video visit platform for triaging coronavirus patients through Rush’s current virtual care services. Here’s her first-person account […]
Seattle Nurses Scrounge for Masks to Stay Safe on Pandemic’s Front Lines
As the caseload of patients with the new coronavirus grows, masks and other personal protective equipment (PPE) are in short supply — and nurses in Washington state are resorting to workarounds to try to stay safe. Wendy Shaw, a charge nurse for an emergency room in Seattle, says her hospital and others have locked up […]
