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âIt Takes Timeâ: I.C.U. Workers Help Their Former Covid Patients Mend
They survived serious cases of Covid-19, sometimes spending weeks on a ventilator, but not without complications. Now, a special clinic at an L.A. hospital is helping them get back to their lives.
Gilbert Torres returned to Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital, where he had been on a ventilator in the I.C.U.Credit.Isadora Kosofsky for The New York Times
April 1, 2021
LOS ANGELES â Three days after being released from Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital, Gilbert Torres returned on a stretcher, a clear tube snaking from his nose to an oxygen tank. It was the last place he wanted to be.
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EFRAIN TALAMANTES, M.D., JOINS BOARD OF TRUSTEES AT THE CHICAGO SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
The Chicago School of Professional PsychologyFebruary 11, 2021 GMT
Los Angeles, Feb. 11, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) The Chicago School (TCSPP) welcomes Efrain Talamantes, M.D., Chief Operating Officer of AltaMed Health Services, the nation’s largest community health center, to its Board of Trustees.
“Dr. Talamantes has devoted his career to advancing health equity, promoting diversity in healthcare, and serving the community,” said Dr. Michele Nealon, TCSPP President. “These are values that directly align with our mission to expand access to care by educating and training a diverse student body that can fundamentally improve the health and wellbeing of our communities. I am thrilled he’s joining us.”
When he was volunteering as a medical translator at New York’s community-organised COVID-19 Bengali hotline during the spring lockdown last year, Lala Tanmoy Das received a call from a woman who could not speak English.
“It was from a Bangladeshi woman in her 50s. She displayed shortness of breath, was profusely sweating and having chest pain, radiating to the jaw and arm,” says Das, 31, who as an MD-PhD student immediately recognised that her condition was critical.
“In medical terms, we would translate this as experiencing a heart attack.”
While trying to keep the caller calm, Das urged her to call the emergency services. His job as a volunteer for the COVID hotline was only to give general advice about the pandemic.