Just a few weeks earlier, Lorenzoni had watched — along with many other Americans — how the Italian medical system had been brought to its knees. It seemed likely it was only a matter of when, not if, the coronavirus would arrive in the U.S. And of course, by then, it already had.
"One of my main mantras is to sit down with somebody. And that was very tough in this environment because our protective equipment didn't surround us," he says."So we were discouraged from sitting down on the bed next to a patient to have a deep discussion or sitting down in a chair and being at eye level with the patient."
One patient, a man in his mid-forties, kept asking how bad his condition was. As the man's health deteriorated, Lorenzoni was open with him, aware that those hard conversations — like what it means to be put on a ventilator — are sometimes the last a patient will ever have.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
As I listened, I cried. Thank you for telling the hard stories.
Good story, but I’ll-fitting pictures. Look like high school senior photos
DrLorenzoni Bravo! Doctors who treat patients with untiring dedication with their heart soul and spirit are not only heroes but spiritual comforters of the ones caught in pincers of hopeless, helpless pain and loneliness. Thank you
Pediatricians tend to be more humanitarian, sympathetic and empathetic than their adult counterparts.
NOBODY should ever have to die without their loved ones around if possible! What you've done to families, NPR, by furthering this BS is unconscionable!
Crisis doesn’t make heroes, it reveals them.
They were denied their friends, families & even the benefit of clergy. Many were on mechanical ventilation w/ only one member of staff allowed in the room. This is not the way people want to be ill or to, God forbid, die. We are a communal species.
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