A missile hit the house of the Karaush family in Kiev, with father Max (44), mother Irina (44), and two children Mark (19) and Georgi (10) all at home. The mother of the family and her 19-year-old son were moderately injured and are suffering from significant and complex injuries to their limbs. Immediately after the…
Aharon Adler, can we have a brief résumé, please?
I’ve worked for Magen David Adom [emergency medical service] for 19 years. I’m married and a father of four, and live in Efrat [south of Jerusalem in the West Bank]. I used to be a lawyer, now I’m a med student. Both I and my wife are. Fourth year.
We’re speaking in the wake of a wrenching text you published. It was a description of a shift in conditions of a rampaging pandemic, with three patients who died on just that shift alone. Tell us about what you’re seeing.
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The week before Christmas, hundreds of medical residents at Stanford University Hospital joined an emergency Zoom call. They had been brought together by shared outrage at their administration’s allocation plans for its first 5,000 doses of the newly authorized vaccine for Covid-19, the pandemic that had defined their past year. Only seven of those shots were reserved for residents, the lowest-ranking physicians, even though they’re more often exposed to patients infected with the coronavirus than other employees whose work had been almost entirely remote. But some of those employees including hospital executives and dermatologists who’d only seen patients virtually were nonethele