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Anesthesia dad with family full of psychiatrists reacts to covid

00:00 - 00:03 Given the current covid crisis

00:04 - 00:05 Our hospitals are over capacity

00:05 - 00:07 Our colleagues in EM and medicine are overrun

00:08 - 00:12 Derm,ortho

00:12 - 00:15 And PM&R have all been assigned to medicine

00:17 - 00:19 You all are safe in psychiatry

00:19 - 00:21 You don't know any real medicine

00:24 - 00:26 Dad...

00:27 - 00:28 We...

00:31 - 00:33 Are also being assigned to medicine

00:34 - 00:36 We start tomorrow

00:53 - 00:58 Non medical family leave, psychiatry stays

01:13 - 01:15 THIS IS AN OUTRAGE

01:15 - 01:17 you can't even treat community acquired pneumonia!

01:18 - 01:23 I've done 2 anesthesia fellowship

01:25 - 01:28 And they weren't learned in a day!

01:29 - 01:31 You're going to intubate into the esophagus

01:31 - 01:34 AND infect yourself

01:34 - 01:37 This virus cant be treated with haldol

01:37 - 01:40 Are you going to use therapy to talk the virus down?

01:40 - 01:42 Dad we are still doctors

01:42 - 01:46 Then explain you expertise is just BiPAP settings

01:46 - 01:48 Dad we have uptodate

01:48 - 01:52 You think I learned how to manage patients from a website?

01:53 - 01:54 It was years of ABGs

01:56 - 01:57 And these were non infectious patients

01:57 - 02:00 Normal CHF overload

02:00 - 02:03 Or overdoses

02:04 - 02:08 You people cant even do nasal cannula

02:08 - 02:13 Because you're patients will strangle themselves

02:14 - 02:16 And that's the least of it

02:17 - 02:21 What will you do when people need a central line?

02:27 - 02:29 You'll misplace it possibly killing your patient

02:30 - 02:34 And getting covid blood all over you

02:34 - 02:36 And then what?

02:41 - 02:42 I worked so hard

02:43 - 02:47 Only to let admin feed you to the fire

02:48 - 02:53 Dont they understand you cant do anything?!

02:54 - 02:56 You can do code discussions at least though

02:56 - 02:59 But nothing else!

03:00 - 03:02 Comfort the families like you're trained to

03:04 - 03:07 Dont worry we will always comfort the families

03:14 - 03:16 At least now you'll get PPE

03:19 - 03:23 That's one less thing for me to worry about

03:25 - 03:26 The ACGME says it's still mandatory

03:31 - 03:33 And you'll have attendings watching over you

03:40 - 03:46 But if one of you

03:46 - 03:49 Ends up on a vent