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The orthopods are going to the ED/urgent care. Very quiet there still though, volume half as much as normal. ICU meanwhile approaching capacity.

Not sure where De Blasio thinks he's going to draft doctors from. This will hit all 50 states. And there are already plenty of older docs with comorbidities that are working. Same thing with NY state combing their resources and sending to where they are needed. It's good in theory. In practice I fear it means all the non-NYC locales will be out of vents and staff right as the surge comes for them, while NYC still has no end in sight. It's going to get really ugly this next month

Co-worker of mine still has her New York license.  She was invited back.  Another co-worker just left his ER/toxicology job, but his group asked him to serve as medical director for a makeshift (non-Covid) ER a few days a week.  So far they haven't been necessary with ER volumes down compared to normal, but they are as prepared as they can be. Another one is a former Kaiser ICU doctor, and he has been contributing shifts.  Volume there is below normal with no elective procedures, and the worst of the epidemic yet to hit.

I haven't been contacted yet (maybe that says something about my perceived clinical competence), but I have debated what, if anything to do if I'm needed when the wave crests.  At the same time, I'm involved in our Covid clinical trials, and we are trying to condense processes that normally take months into one week.

BC

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The orthopods are going to the ED/urgent care. Very quiet there still though, volume half as much as normal. ICU meanwhile approaching capacity.

Not sure where De Blasio thinks he's going to draft doctors from. This will hit all 50 states. And there are already plenty of older docs with comorbidities that are working. Same thing with NY state combing their resources and sending to where they are needed. It's good in theory. In practice I fear it means all the non-NYC locales will be out of vents and staff right as the surge comes for them, while NYC still has no end in sight. It's going to get really ugly this next month

Co-worker of mine still has her New York license.  She was invited back.  Another co-worker just left his ER/toxicology job, but his group asked him to serve as medical director for a makeshift (non-Covid) ER a few days a week.  So far they haven't been necessary with ER volumes down compared to normal, but they are as prepared as they can be. Another one is a former Kaiser ICU doctor, and he has been contributing shifts.  Volume there is below normal with no elective procedures, and the worst of the epidemic yet to hit.

I haven't been contacted yet (maybe that says something about my perceived clinical competence), but I have debated what, if anything to do if I'm needed when the wave crests.  At the same time, I'm involved in our Covid clinical trials, and we are trying to condense processes that normally take months into one week.

BC