Carolyn Harding with three medical workers on the front-lines of the covid-19 crisis.
We have all been impacted by this deadly pandemic virus, yet these folks are on the front lines, tending, treating, nursing, comforting our most vulnerable in their deepest need. They facing life and death head-on daily. They are Heroes.
One of our guests is a traveling nurse, one is an ER medical technician, one an Urgent care MD. Two of our guests choose to remain anonymous.
Traveling Nurse is a registered nurse based in Central Ohio. She has worked as a travel nurse in a variety of specialties in the hospital setting for the past 5 years. In January 2020 she started [an] 8 week contract, then covid hit- she’s been extending and extending and extending to this day. She’s been assigned to three different facilities over the course of the Covid pandemic, and has most recently been assigned to a Covid ICU unit in a facility that is under surge due to the Covid crisis.
ER Tech is an Emergency Department Technician in a small, independent, not-for-profit hospital in SE Ohio with less than 300 beds. As a technician, she takes vitals, assist nurses by drawing blood, running errands to lab cleaning, stocking, performing EKG's, transporting, and do compressions on patients. .
Brad Cotton is an MD, ER physician for 40 years. He started off as a paramedic in Cleveland, studied Nursing at Kent State and then Medical School at OSU. He's active in Ohio SPAN (single payer action network).
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