Coronavirus
by: Dr. Mary Gillis, D.Ed.
Posted:
Feb 26, 2021 / 09:08 PM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) This time last year, News 8 met Tyler Hoeppner. In between checking patient vitals and digging through doctors’ notes, the sports journalist turned nurse shared his story of taking on a new career.
Now, he’s sharing a different story what it’s like to be a front-line worker taking on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hoeppner with the rest of the doctors, nurses and IU Health Methodist Hospital staff was thrown into something unlike anything he’d ever seen before.
“Learning how to treat this thing? Nobody knew,” he said. “At the very beginning, it was like, if this is how it’s going to go, it’s going to be brutal because the amount of things we were doing at the pace we were doing them was just unheard of. The number of people we intubated on a shift…you just didn’t do.”
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