I Never Wanted To Be a Hero: JCOM

Abstract

Vesbianu has been in the business of medicine for more than 15 years and he will never forget the initial surge of the COVID-19 pandemic in Massachusetts. As a hospitalist, he admitted patients infected with COVID-19, followed them on the floor, and, since he had some experience working in an intensive care unit (ICU), was assigned to cover a COVID ICU." This wing of the hospital used to be a fancy orthopedic floor that their institution was lucky enough to have. So began the most life-changing experience in his career as a physician. These struggles were by no means special to him;other hospitalists around the world faced similar situations at one point or another during the pandemic."