Write a speech to be delivered online expressing gratitude to frontline health
workers—doctors, nurses, paramedics, cleanliness workers and police and other
security forces for their untiring and selfless services in dealing with the Covid-19
pandemic.
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LETTERS
The Heroism of Health Workers in the Coronavirus Crisis
Readers acknowledge the risks that doctors, nurses and many others are taking and offer their gratitude.
March 26, 2020
Credit...Dave Sanders for The New York Times
To the Editor:
Your Covid-19 coverage highlights the plights and heroic efforts of the countless health care workers on the front lines.
My husband — a recent kidney transplant recipient — and I have been struck by the mind-blowing dedication of his team. We spoke with one of my husband’s physicians yesterday, aghast at his description of the treacherous working conditions and amazed at his unswerving commitment.
To all the health care workers out there — doctors, nurses, technicians, medical staff, administrators, food service workers, pharmacists, security guards, our military deployed to set up hospitals and deliver aid — our nation owes you our thanks and our lives.
On March 30, National Doctors Day, could we all join together in a moment of solidarity, and take one minute, say at noon Eastern time, to stop what we’re doing, and just cheer, applaud, bang some cans, wherever we are, for all the selfless people who are endangering themselves and their loved ones for all of our benefit — then post a photo via social media? These heroes deserve our recognition and our deepest gratitude.
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Ariane Brandt
South Salem, N.Y.
To the Editor:
I am a first-year medical student at the Yale School of Medicine. Now that graduating medical students from all over the country know where they are going for residency, many of them just want to get started.
On Wednesday, it was reported that New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine would allow its fourth-year students to graduate early. Other medical schools in the country should follow suit. These are students who are well trained, have already taken care of patients, are itching to go to bat for patients and can relieve many of the pressures that are about to crush our hospital systems.
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Shin Mei Chan
New Haven, Conn.
To the Editor:
She rises at 5:15 a.m., arrives in the Covid-19 unit by 7:15. Receives the handoff information from the night shift. She washes down, dons the yellow gown, shoe covers, hair cover, the N95 mask, gloves and the eye shield and enters the negative pressure room.
Her distraught patient is coughing uncontrollably. She administers a breathing treatment along with some Tylenol and fluids, checks her oxygen saturation, delivers a message from her family and reassures her that she will get better. She leaves and repeats the process with her next patient.
She does this for 12 hours. She goes home and disinfects before she greets her family, has some dinner and goes to bed. Rises at 5:15 and repeats the process, trying not to be discouraged by the patients who go on ventilators or don’t survive.
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