A Houston hospital isn't just battling the coronavirus. It faces patients who, convinced they're not infected, leave before treatment is finished.
Nurses reviewed her chart and jotted down her vital signs on one of few available surfaces — the white legs of their Tyvek suits, which they would wear until the end of their 12-hour shifts.Hodges frowned. “When I get up and try to walk, I’m short of breath.”Varon checked on a woman who had arrived at the hospital days before seeking narcotics, needle pricks in her arms, only to be diagnosed with COVID-19.
But he could barely sit up in bed. On the ultrasound monitor, Varon saw blood clots that could cause a stroke. As he passed the rooms of his patients, they could be heard chatting on cellphones and watching television programs in English and Spanish. Nurses had their own children draw pictures to decorate the rooms, with crayoned messages like, “Be paciant. You will survive.”“I don’t know what place in the U.S. knows more about COVID than this little hospital — the treatment and the social issues,” Varon said.
Alan Araiza sets up oxygen equipment as as Anita Pandey helps newly arrived COVID patient Eliazar Angel Rodriguez, 40, get settled in. Medrano also requested a letter clearing her to return to work as a waitress. Pandey agreed as Varon scrawled “” on a trophy certificate he awards every discharged patient: “Nice try COVID — I survived.”
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