I had never seen anything like this before. Mind you I stand in the trauma room and serve right alongside all the members of the medical trauma team. I have witnessed the aftermath of horrific car crashes, terrible falls, bone crushing on the job accidents and life ending gunshot injuries. As well as folks who fell because they cut the very tree limb they were standing on. I, and my chaplain compatriots, work with all of those trauma patients and as well as their families. It is not unusual to work a dozen to twenty plus traumas (levels one, two and three) during a shift. Yet I had never seen anything like what happened when COVID hit Oklahoma in 2020. Like many other hospitals across America ICU areas and entire floors were turned into COVID units. Where I serve as a chaplain was no exception. Seemingly overnight COVID areas were created. In the COVID areas I saw the hands of nurses and doctors that were dry and irritated from constant hand washing and the use of high alcoh...
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