I’ve Just Left the ER, and I Need to Talk
04/01/20 • 8 min
In Episode 1 of Doctor’s Log, Esther Choo—a Portland, Oregon, emergency-room physician—takes us inside her daily life on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a new world: where she contends with dangerous equipment shortages; where she watches colleagues fall sick and wonders who’s next; and where she comes out of the ER each night wanting to talk. That’s where these recorded diaries, named for Captain Kirk’s Captain’s Log on Star Trek, come in.
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In Episode 1 of Doctor’s Log, Esther Choo—a Portland, Oregon, emergency-room physician—takes us inside her daily life on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a new world: where she contends with dangerous equipment shortages; where she watches colleagues fall sick and wonders who’s next; and where she comes out of the ER each night wanting to talk. That’s where these recorded diaries, named for Captain Kirk’s Captain’s Log on Star Trek, come in.
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Collateral Damage
In Episode 2 of Doctor’s Log—a diary of one ER physician’s life on the COVID-19 front lines—Esther Choo, M.D., shares an update on a sick colleague. Plus, she reflects on what the public doesn’t understand about this country's much-publicized ventilator shortages, and goes deep on the topic of “collateral damage”: the unforeseen consequences of forcing victims of child abuse and domestic violence to sequester in homes that simply are not safe for them. This is a point of view only an insider could have: raw, emotional, and deeply informed.
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