The Front Lines
DAVID FLETCHER, MD
Emergency Medicine Physician at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas
On hospital life: We’ve received quite a few patients who have the virus, but we’re still expecting more to come. Right now, my day is more spent in meetings and planning for worst-case scenarios—if we run out of ventilators or ICU space. All of that involves lots of meetings done on conference calls with all different specialties in the hospitals and administration. The other half the time, I’m working. We’re seeing a fair number of people with the virus, from not very sick people to people on ventilators. The rest of the volume—because people aren’t driving much or getting injured—the volume is way down.
I haven’t been roping at all. I slowed down a little
