Really I never saw such a thing before but I'm remembering the days when we
fought against Isis. I've never experienced anything like this befor.
The hard thing to do is to make choices between helping one patient or another.
I think the most emotional moment for me was when I first answered the calls from
relatives of patients, because patients are not allowed to receive any visitors.
They can only get some news from us when they call us once per day. So the first
time I answered the phone I could really feel that the voice of the other person
who was full of hope and I also just wanted to give them some good news.
You see a lot of people dying even if they were completely healthy. We feel very very helpless.
it is stressful to be a doctor.
Most of the hospitals in the three main regions: Lombardy, Piedmont and the Veneto,
we do not have any place in hospital anymore. It's even worse than
the war. I have to say that I never cried. I have kind of anaesthesia. As it comes
later with soldiers when they go to war and then they have PTSD when they come
back at home, it will probably be the same for us.
I'm scared too, but of course I'm here to serve and I'm ready.
Working as a nurse during this pandemic is stressful.
We already have a nursing shortage and Covid-19 patients are not the only
ones being admitted to the hospital.
Being a doctor is not being a machine. We have feelings and we are afraid more
than you. We have the shortage of the personal protective equipment.
Surgical masks, head cover, shoe cover, surgical gown and gloves with goggles.
Really I never saw such a thing before but it reminds me of the days when we fought against Isis.
The hospitals were full of soldiers, so now it is the turn of the doctors to
start protecting the people against this enemy.
I had a patient who was hospitalised because she has a kidney problem
and I couldn't resolve it because all the technicians and medical personal on
the ward, they got positive for Covid-19. The hard thing to do is to make choices
between helping one patient over another. Those are the things that a doctor
should never perform. But in this pandemic we're forced to. Sometimes we
have to choose whom and how to take care of a person.
They really made my day and sometimes they almost made me cry.
The amount of love and appreciation that has been shown - it has been amazing.
Please, stay at home.
Just wait.
We have to choose between what is easy and what is right.
Every person who can decide to follow all the rules can be the hero of this time.