Garrett Jensen

Jan 30, 2023 | kevinmd.com | Sara L. Merwin |Garrett Jensen |Alison Vasa |R. Barnett

The COVID ICU is abuzz with monitors beeping and doctors and nurses rushing from bed to bed to care for critically ill patients, most on ventilators. The machines – dialysis, vents, pumps – sound off their rhythmic repetitions; breaths are pushed in and pulled out, and meds are dripped. Only the patients themselves are silent. We know this, and we hear this, but we are not there. It’s thhe height of the COVID pandemic, and visitors are not welcome, so we are not at the bedside. We are remote.