'I actually had to help out with one of the nurses and one of the transporters to move the dead body to the morgue myself. That was probably the worst day that I had.'
Mount Sinai Brooklyn on March 30. Photo: Patrick Schnell, M.D. We’re committed to keeping our readers informed.
Around two weeks ago, there was an old gentleman who got admitted and was intubated immediately upon arrival because his respiratory function was really bad. He got transferred to us and was doing very poorly. We had to tell the family the prognosis was extremely poor. But we managed to halt his deterioration somewhat. He was stable in critical condition for the next two days. And then on Saturday I came in at 7 a.m. and around 7:20 a.m. he coded.
I’m usually a colorectal surgeon. I’ve been at Mount Sinai Brooklyn for about two years now. Once all this started, I was initially asked to cover one of our med-surg floors, which is a mix of medical and surgical patients, because a lot of medical doctors were getting sick and they were getting too busy. The floor was still COVID-negative at that time, and my job was just to help expedite all the care and possible discharges.
Fortunately, relatively quickly, that help did arrive. We got more nurses, more staff, more hospitalists. Dr. Shearer and our leadership did a very good job bringing in the resources and manpower. After about a week, there was enough manpower to cover that floor, so the whole department moved to our makeshift ICU that was created from the operative spaces on the surgical floor, and now we are assisting in running that ICU. Now that there’s help, it feels better.
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