Lubbock doctors entered holidays exhausted, worried gatherings could bring another spike
Dr. Ebtesam Islam walked room-to-room through the University Medical Center ICU on Wednesday morning, checking on each COVID-19 patient on the overfilled floor.
She carried an iPad with her, in case she needed to help a patient FaceTime their family to say goodbye at a moment's notice, she had to practically shout through layers of PPE as she spoke to other families, and she had to tell the wife of a man in his 30s that her husband would not make it home from the hospital - all before noon.