They described their fears and hopes and said they never imagined they would have to bear witness to so much death this early in their careers as doctors.
On the front lines of the coronavirus crisis that has swept through New York City, a medical resident in Brooklyn decided to write about dealing with a historic pandemic at what is an early and critical time in the career of a doctor.
Medical residents in New York City described their fears and hopes to NBC News and said they never imagined they would have to bear witness to so much death this early in their careers. As of Tuesday evening, there were more than 111,000 known coronavirus cases in the city, with more than 6,800 confirmed deaths.
"We're literally going to work every day, all day and then we go home and all we do is read, read, read," looking for any new research on the virus, she said."We feel very helpless.""We as doctors take an oath, we can't run away," she said."We have to wake up every morning and we have to face the fears and the insecurities.
"The amount of times I've almost broken down or have broken down crying because I've had to listen to loved ones bawling over the phone because just this morning their significant other was fine on room air … and now they passed away," the resident wrote."And on top of it having to tell them they can't even come to the hospital to see them because the risk of exposure is too high.
"Residents look to us as attendings for guidance and we're just faking it to make it really," he said."None of us have been through anything like this before." Sun said he urged residents to find someone in the medical field who"speaks your language you need to hear to be able to process what you're going through right now."The pandemic has led to calls for an all-hands-on-deck approach in the city, with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo saying Saturday he would be signing an executive order to allow medical students set to graduate this spring"to begin practicing now.
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