SF doctor shares notes from the front line: 'It's really heartbreaking' [sfchronicle.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 6/12/2012:00 PM

By Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, June 10, 2020

Debbie Madhok is an emergency and intensive care unit physician at San Francisco General Hospital in the city’s Mission District, one of the neighborhoods hit hardest by the coronavirus pandemic.

As stay-at-home orders went into effect and case numbers started rising in the city, she started keeping daily journals on her iPhone, documenting thoughts and observations culled from her shifts treating coronavirus and ICU patients.

Her notes, a sampling of recent entries that she shared with The Chronicle, touch on many layers of the crisis that is still unfolding: from the social and economic disparities that have left large swaths of San Francisco’s residents particularly vulnerable, to the mental health issues facing the people who are working the front lines of the fight against COVID-19.

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