![]() “It’s really hard to talk to a patient who’s on high flow, nasal cannula, struggling to breathe and ask them, ‘Well, what do you want us to do when they put this tube down your throat? Do you want us to do a C-section to potentially save your baby? That may end up harming you, you might die…Do we focus on you? Do we focus on the baby?’” “It’s a little bit more challenging where we have to deal with ultimately two patients as opposed to one, and what we do for one can harm the other… The majority of patients want everything to be done for the baby, but that’s really hard when you know that some of those things done for the baby are really putting mom’s life at risk.” ![]() That wouldn’t happen in a normal given state.” They couldn’t get her here and she died, because there’s no bed to bring her to. I was just hearing today that they kept trying to get someone flown in here from the panhandle. But it’s not good enough, because we don’t have any ICU beds. “Our rates of people doing okay and surviving are really pretty good, considering our numbers and the resources and all of those things. And then starting in the end of July is when we started to see an uptick in cases and how much severe disease we’re seeing.” If you look at what March to June, it was a manageable level of things. We would have an occasional patient in the unit, maybe one, maybe two, but we never saw this number… That sort of shifted in this new wave, which is mostly attributed to the Delta variant. “We didn’t really have huge surges back in the summer of 2020-not like other people saw over the winter of 2020, early 2021. And I’ve never had this many in the ICU at one time.” I tend to be more on the darker side of things, for whatever reason. “As physicians, we talk about who’s a white cloud and who’s a black cloud-meaning some people tend to have worse luck in terms of how things roll, and some people never seem to have any complicated patients on their service.
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