PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia-area hospitals are jammed with patients, but not always because they are truly sick enough to be there. Staff shortages at nursing homes and home care companies, difficulty finding dialysis slots for covid-19 patients, and even a lack of space in city homeless shelters are forcing hospitals to
A Dose of Hope
It’s been a tough year for ER doctors and nurses in the Philadelphia region. They’ve come a long way since those first terrible months. A Dose of Hope
It’s been a tough year for ER doctors and nurses in the Philadelphia region. They’ve come a long way since those first terrible months. Last spring, as bodies piled up in a refrigerated trailer outside Roxborough Memorial Hospital, emergency room nurse Harry Caramanica said the stress caused his hair to fall out. He became withdrawn. He’d wake at night and see the faces of dead patients, the ones he couldn’t save, drifting above his bed.