Doctors and nurses are self-isolating from their families so they can keep working

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Doctors are self-isolating from their families so they can keep working

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/doctors-are-self-isolating-from-their-families-so-they-can-keep-working/

Emory University epidemiologist and health services researcher Dr. Rachel Patzer, PhD revealed that she moved her husband, a medical doctor, out of the house to help keep their family safe.

In a tragic thread on Twitter, Patzer said that her husband is actively coming in contact with coronavirus patients. While he’s practicing safety, to protect their family, he’ll be crashing above their garage.

“We have a 3 week-old newborn and 2 young kids and just can’t risk it,” said Patzer. “It pains me to wonder how many weeks will go by that he won’t get to hold our new baby or see our older kids. This is one example of the sacrifice that healthcare workers are making for our communities.”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8121143/New-York-nurse-sends-kids-away-month-fight-coronavirus.html

Heartbreaking sacrifices of doctors on the front line of the coronavirus fight: Parents are moving out of their family homes or sending their kids away to their grandparents so they can treat the tsunami of patients yet to come
Doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers are giving up their families temporarily to be able to treat the sick
Jessica Chan, a nurse in New York, has sent her two daughters, six and two, to live with their grandparents for a month
Because she will be so exposed, she cannot risk getting the two girls sick
Rachel Patzer revealed her husband is self-isolating 'for the foreseeable' because he is treating patients at the hospital
They have a three-week-old newborn who he will now not see for weeks
Tatiana Prowell's husband has moved into his office for the next month
She shared a photograph of the cot bed he has set up to rest
They are all being hailed as heroes by their sacrifice; many are coming out of retirement
Other doctors and nurses are coming out of retirement to help treat the sick
Many are especially at risk because they are over 65 and are more susceptible to the virus's symptoms

[EarthFirst]

1. What a tremendous sacrifice!

There aren’t words that I could express to someone making this level of sacrifice for the common good of their community...

[Nonhlanhla]

2. Our family has done that

My husband works as a director of chaplaincy services in one of the top university medical systems, where they will definitely be getting COVID patients very soon, and he has moved to an apartment closer to the hospital, both to shorten his commute (to take stress off his body), and to isolate us from him (since I have asthma). I don't know for how long we'll have to be separated. It sucks.

[EarthFirst]

3. Hugs to you...

Your husband is a remarkable man!

[Nonhlanhla]

5. Thank you. He is indeed. nt

[SCantiGOP]

4. A friend of mine

Married last year, her husband is an ER doctor. The hospital is going to provide rooms for doctors and nurses who are worried about going home, and he told her he was going to do that so she has agreed to stay with her parents in another city.

My daughter is a nurse but this wouldn’t help her; her husband works at a hospital on a military base.