Had a different comic lined up initially for this week but it felt wrong not to talk about coronavirus. There’s a ton of people on Instagram providing amazing information about it. I’m post 28 hour call and slept an hour, So I’ll keep this quick- I’m scared af. ARDS patients are some of the sickest we see. They are brittle, require extensive monitoring, and many of them end up on Ecmo. Our ICUs are already full. If coronavirus takes hold, we’ll almost certainly have to go straight to rationing resources. .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ There’s also the fact that, since we are on the front lines as healthcare workers, we are at very high risk of contracting COVID19. I’m young and able-bodied, but I definitely didn’t consider that I would be at the frontline of a highly communicable disease when I decided I wanted to be a cardiologist. And yet young health care workers the world over have been confronting and sometimes succumbing to this disease head on. Scurry stuff. .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #comic #webcomic #coronavirus #resident #intern #inpatient #doctor #relatable #womeninmedicine #blackdoctors #graphicmedicine #premed #premedmotivation #residency #internalmedicine #medschool #medicine #medicalschool #medlife #md #medstudent #nurse #physician
I.M. Resident only a little jaded.