month. over a month in. yeah. perpetually. we had that many emergency department patients in our emergency department that need to be on the floors and we just can t. we re stepping on the hose up here. there s nowhere for them to go. reporter: health care workers from the nurses to doctors to those who sanitize and ready vi rooms for next victim of coronavirus get up every day and go at it again. how does the stress manifest itself in your life? yused to be on the days i coe to work but now it carries over to i have to come into work and do this. i love my job and i can t see myself doing anything else but it s the heaviness that is here working in these situations with these people who before they go off in door they had a normal life, healthy people, out celebrating thanksgiving and now they are here with mask on their face teary eyed staring at me asking if they will live or not.
elected procedures on hold. the wait for a bed once admitted, two days. its emergency department swamped for weeks. . and how often is your emergency department overwhelmed to that level? . we have been that way over a month. . over a month? . yeah. perpetually. we have had that many emergency department patients in our emergency department that need to be on the floors. and we can t there is nowhere for them to go. reporter: health care workers from the nurses to the doctors, to those who sanitize and ready rooms for the next victim of coronavirus get up every day and go at it again. how does the stress manifest itself? on the days i came to work, i would be stressed out. but now it comes having to come to work. i love my job. it is just the heaviness and
we ve been that way over a month. reporter: over a month? yeah. perpetually. perpetually. we ve had that many emergency department patients in our emergency department that need to be on the floors. we re stepping on the hose up here. there is nowhere for them to go. reporter: meanwhile, health care workers, from the nurses to the doctors to those who sanitize and ready rooms for the next victim of coronavirus get up every day and go at it again. how does the stress manifest itself in your life? it used to just be on the days i d come to work i d be stressed out. but now it kind of carries over to knowing i have to come into work and do this. i love my job, i love what i do, and i can t see myself doing anything else. but it s just the heaviness that is here and working in these situations with these people who before they walked in the door, they had a normal life. they were healthy people. they were out celebrating thanksgiving. and now they re here with a mask on theirt