As the COVID-19 surges and overwhelms the healthcare system, what are the chances of surviving or dying when hospital beds are no longer available, breathable air is running out, and the HCWs — the ones left — are beside themselves staring helplessly at life as it fades away? What choices are there to be made? What difficult conversations must we finally have?
Dr. Jose Emmanuel Martin Palo, director of the Acute and Critical Care Institute of The Medical City, writes about the hardships and the burden they carry and why it is about time “to have a frank conversation” with the patients as well as those in the frontlines “about what to expect when fighting the disease at its worst, an…
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