write a letter on corona warriors (700-1000) words
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The corona warriors
From prisons to schools, to hospitals — places that care for a lot of people have had to change a lot of their operations in order to combat the spread of COVID-19.
Lake Effect contributor Bruce Campbell is a head and cancer surgeon at Froedtert Hospital and the Medical College of Wisconsin, and he shares his essay “Waiting for Coronavirus:”
My patient needs to be admitted to the hospital now. He has been recovering steadily from the throat cancer surgery I performed a month ago, but then he started intermittently bleeding. The bleeding continued – and worsened – over the past couple of days. He drives in from out-of-town and shows me photos of what he has coughed up. It’s bright red. Oh no, I think. That looks arterial.
“There is the real possibility that this might suddenly become dangerous,” I tell him. “We need to admit you to the hospital today. Right now. We have to stop the bleeding before it gets worse. I don’t want you to drive home.”
“But, Doc,” he replies, “what about the virus? I don’t want to be in a place where there might be coronavirus! I had cancer, I’m sure my immune system is shot. Isn’t there another way?”
He and I have both been watching the news. Only a few cases of coronovirus reported in Wisconsin thus far, but pandemics can overwhelm entire countries in a matter of days. Experts warn that we are on the front edge of a massive crisis.
With lots of help, I created a syllabus. The students will study stories of ambiguity, pandemic, and the wider world. As we delve into literature, poetry, and art, I hope that the emotions and lessons we encounter will help them understand themselves, appreciate their patients, and discern their purposes.
It is a shame that the pandemic separated students from the work that they are called to do. Being in the hospital would have provided opportunities to learn from faculty, residents, nurses, housekeepers, aides, therapists, social workers, chaplains, dietary workers, and the maintenance people – all of the folks in a hospital who do their best and put themselves at risk every day.
I admit that teaching this course makes me nervous. I will be covering topics about which I am still learning myself and using technology I really don’t understand. As Ray Bradbury once said, I will “jump off the cliff and learn how to make wings on the way down.” But, that’s OK.
I hope that some of the stories we read together will plant seeds that will take root and grow. One day, when they are allowed back in the hospital, one of the students will meet a patient whose life is glancingly similar to someone we met in a short story, a poem, or a painting. Maybe they will remember. If so, they will be a better physician for that patient. And maybe they will be a better teacher when the next pandemic arrives.
Lake Effect essayist Bruce Campbell is a head and cancer surgeon at Froedtert Hospital and the Medical College of Wisconsin. Many of his essays appear on his blog, Reflections in a Head Mirror. Campbell joined WUWM’s Advisory Board in 2013.