#NationalDoctorsDay #DoctorsDay
"One second you start morning rounds to get to know the patients, immediate call comes from third unit about a patient collapsing, you run to revive, half way through arranging medicines, the next patient's spo2 falls to 35%, call for help. (1/9)
"One second you start morning rounds to get to know the patients, immediate call comes from third unit about a patient collapsing, you run to revive, half way through arranging medicines, the next patient's spo2 falls to 35%, call for help. (1/9)
Once done half way, other doctor takes over & you shift to 35% spO2, arrange and pull a BIPAP machine, administer steroids, prone the patient and he's stable within one second of which another patient collapses and you're unable to revive despite best efforts. (2/9)
Just within another second, another patient wants to remove BIPAP as he wants water, the patient next to him suddenly starts murmuring words you can understand as his sugar is too high to be normal and insulin must be given. (3/9)
While at this, consultant comes on rounds and wants an update for ALL the patients and just as you're talking, another one looses the battle. This is amplified with every second and seems like it's a never ending cascade. (4/9)
When patients are declared, you don't even have a second to mourn as there are 20 more patients waiting for a bed outside and they need to be shifted immediately. The only meaning left of death in the ICU is an immediate free bed which can save someone else's life. (5/9)
You're 28 something and giving hope and instructions on how to breathe through a BIPAP with oxygen level wavering between 80-85% to a 26 years old, giving yourself the strength & hope that you are untouchable and force not to imagine yourself in the same situation. (6/9)
Every inch of muscle in my body is aching, every part of the scrubs is drenched with sweat, the water from heat is dripping to your eyes and you're worried that your mask is airtight for the virus. (7/9)
At the same time as you walk out of the kit & check your phone to 30 some missed calls and messages for patients outside waiting for consult and help. (8/9)
It's a war zone with your battledress on, remembering god each second, giving what's left of the 100% devotion in you and never stopping."
Kudos to Dr Vani Dutta. More power to you Doctor!
PC: instagram.com/drvannidutta/
(9/9)
Kudos to Dr Vani Dutta. More power to you Doctor!
PC: instagram.com/drvannidutta/
(9/9)
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