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Backstory on today's puzzle. Thanks to @DebAmlen for letting me share.
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Zachary D Levy MD 🇲🇦 🇨🇮
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Zachary D Levy MD 🇲🇦 🇨🇮
@ZLevyMD
emergency medicine / critical care / telestroke
puzzles for @nytimes @wsj @latimes @AndrewsMcMeel
"Views are my own."
NYCx
Joined May 2015
- We are now a monolith. We started with a medical ICU, surgical ICU, cardiac ICU, neurosurgical ICU, and a cardiothoracic ICU, plus a dozen mixed specialty floors. Every floor and unit is becoming a COVID unit. There is no more specialization — we’re all treating one thing.
- "aaaaand here's when we decided a big in-person celebration in Times Square was still a good idea", i said amongst the smoldering remains of Manhattan
- once upon a time, all health insurance in this country was not-for-profit, everyone was charged the same, and no one was denied coverage because of age, sickness, or preexisting conditions. that sounds like a fairy tale, but it's just straight-up history. why can't we go back?
- So in between fighting cancer and continuing to serve on the court, #RBG solved my #NYTXW puzzle with her granddaughter and sent me an autographed copy! @NYTimesWordplay
- Sobering @NEJM COVID recc’s: “We believe that removing a patient from a ventilator or an ICU bed to provide it to others in need is also justifiable.. the decision to withdraw a scarce resource to save others is not an act of killing and does not require the patient’s consent.”
- An hour into my shift and already pronounced two patients — including a 33-year-old with no medical history who had a fever x 1 week. They are both likely COVID deaths, though who knows if they get tested post-mortem and join the “official” stats. The curve does not feel flat.
- Replying to @ZLevyMD
- "No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all." Camus and #COVID19 -- a thread. 1/x
- Replying to @acweyandit’s a horrible, painful, life-limiting disease, and i teach the residents to ask them what works for their pain, then smile and nod and give it to them as often as necessary
- Replying to @ercowboyExactly the same. Day 7. Hypoxic, no distress. Fine, then intubated. Underwhelming x-rays, terrible CTs. Don doff don doff don doff. Hands cracked and stinging. Groundhog day.
- On the heels of that disquieting @NEJM article — some hospitals now considering blanket DNR orders for #Covid patients. wapo.st/2Jepkzl
- Replying to @ZLevyMD"What we learn in time of pestilence: that there are more things to admire in men than to despise." 6/x
