Doctors and nurses on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic are putting the photos on their protective suits to reassure patients.
For COVID-19 patients, a hospital stay can be especially scary: You’re in a foreign environment, battling a virus that didn’t exist months ago, without friends and family there to comfort you. The only people you do see are your medical team, and even they’re suited up in head-to-toe protective gear that conceals most of their faces.
“One thing health care workers do to make our patients feel at ease is to reassure them with our smiles but now that we have to wear masks, we are unable to do this,” he told HuffPost via email. “I didn’t have a preprinted photo or a color printer so my polaroid will have to do,” Peggy Ji, an ER doctor in Los Angeles, wrote on Instagram. A post shared by PegsForDays, Life of an ER Dr. on Apr 8, 2020 at 5:59am PDT
A photo, she said, helps patients “connect a human and a smile to the walking spacesuit and masks in front of them.”
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