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Review: “The Desperate Hours,” Marie Brenner - The New York Times
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6/19/22 at 9:00am
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THE DESPERATE HOURS: One Hospital’s Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic’s Front Lines, by Marie Brenner The ethics manual of the American College of Physicians states that “the ethical imperative for physicians to provide care” overrides “the risk to the treating physician, even during epidemics.” When health workers stick around to treat patients, even at risk to their own lives, it is something to be celebrated, and the journalist Marie Brenner does just that in “The Desperate Hours,” an account of how workers at New York-Presbyterian, an academic health system, coped with the Covid surge in New York City beginning in the spring of 2020. The book details both medical heroism and corporate cowardice, prescient decisions and howling missteps, all against the backdrop of a swirling and mysterious pandemic that claimed the lives of more than 30,000 residents, not to mention 35 New York-Presbyterian employees. In response, New York-Presbyterian’s chief operating officer, Dr. Laura Forese, a pediatric orthopedic surgeon, assured staff members that “masks would not be necessary” unless workers were in direct contact with infected patients.
Marie Brenner’s “The Desperate Hours” looks at how health care workers dealt with the perils of Covid.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/19/books/review/the-desperate-hours-marie-brenner.html
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