This is an occasional series called Portraits in Healthcare to capture the changes happening in healthcare due to COVID-19 as experienced by providers in the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The series includes stories of a physician's assistant capturing the challenges of treating COVID-19 through photographs of her masked colleagues, a critical care physicians experience responding to ICU surges in Texas, and a Pennsylvania nurse's handling of the emotional fallout of helping patients say their final goodbyes to loved ones over the phone.
These are their stories as told to FierceHealthcare.
- Portraits in Healthcare: Michigan Medicine physician assistant captures changes through photos
- Portraits in Healthcare: This former Banner ICU nurse left for another industry. He's returning because of COVID-19
- Portraits in Healthcare: Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center doctor on COVID: 'It's been a very humbling experience'
- Portraits in Healthcare: Intermountain ICU doctor calls COVID-19 'a lonely disease'
- Portraits in Healthcare: 'The family was asking us to … hold her hand so their mother wouldn't be alone as she passed'
- Portraits in Healthcare: Providence ED doc says 'I want people to know it’s safe to come to the hospital'
Are you a provider with a story about COVID-19 you'd like to share for our Portraits in Healthcare series, we'd love to hear it. Please email [email protected]. Please include a photo that can be used with your story and a telephone number where you can be reached if your story is selected.