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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy roommate is an OR surgical Tech at Kaiser Hospital in San Diego
She told me yesterday that almost all of the surgical techs are being removed from the OR to assist in the ICU for Corona cases only.
This is getting scary.
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My roommate is an OR surgical Tech at Kaiser Hospital in San Diego (Original Post)
honeylady
Apr 2020
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SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)1. K&R
MissB
(15,805 posts)2. Not gonna get better for a bit.
Probably will get worse first.
Thank your roommate for her work.
LastDemocratInSC
(3,647 posts)7. My wife is an ICU nurse and she says it's the same at her hospital.
gibraltar72
(7,501 posts)3. Getting.
stopbush
(24,395 posts)4. Elective surgeries have been put on hold for now, no doubt to free up
people like your roomie to help with virus cases.
mitch96
(13,888 posts)5. +1 makes sense to me. why just sit around the OR doing nothing when you can help, right? nt
Runningdawg
(4,516 posts)6. It's the same in Tulsa, OK
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)8. This shit has been terrifying for a month
Good luck to roommate.