NFL to Mass General: ex-Titan Myron Rolle joins covid19 fight as neurosurgery resident
(He was also a Rhodes Scholar!)
https://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/nfl/titans/2020/04/05/myron-rolle-titans-coronavirus-covid-19/2938058001/
..."Rolle, a former Titans safety who is now a third-year neurosurgery resident at Mass. General and Harvard Medical School, has seen the neurosurgery floor of his hospital transition to a COVID-19-only floor.
.....Rolle is still doing his part as a neurosurgery resident — the volume of operative cases has shrunk dramatically but emergency surgeries are still being conducted — but he’s also jumped headfirst into the COVID-19 fight.
Mass. General has set up a surge clinic, a “hospital within the hospital,” as Rolle put it, that triage patients coming in off the street with COVID-19 symptoms.
Rolle volunteered for it. The 33-year-old’s turn to man the clinic is coming up in a few days.
“Obviously, neurosurgery is not directly connected to this upper respiratory illness,” Rolle said. “But just like in football, if you're called to do something different that you weren't expecting, you adjust. You adapt. They’re showing us a new formation that we didn’t see on tape? You've got to hunker down and get the job done. In my opinion, this novel disease is something like that. A formation, a personnel package that we haven’t seen before. We have to meet the challenge, and I’m happy to be able to join the fight.”....(more)
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