A letter from a pulmonary physician on the sidelines
I write to the health care workers and other essential hospital personnel who are at the center of efforts to care for our neighbors during the novel coronavirus pandemic.
I am a pulmonary specialist and critical care physician. I am trained to manage organ failures, including diseases of the lung that require life support with mechanical ventilators. I am exactly the kind of specialist that is greatly needed and desperately lacking …


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