Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, USA.
Department of Neurological Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
World Neurosurg. 2021 Apr;148:263-268. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2020.10.174.
The mobilization of subspecialty departments in reaction to the unique demands of the onset of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in New York City was swift and left little time for reflection and commemoration. The early days of the pandemic brought unprecedented stressors on the medical system that necessitated a restructuring of hospitals, reallocation of health care workers, and a shift in care and education paradigms to meet patient care demands and public health needs. As the number of cases, intensive care unit patients, and deaths skyrocketed in New York City, many struggled with a somewhat paradoxical difficulty in perceiving the human value of what these numbers mean. Easily lost in the statistics are the stories and experiences of the physicians and trainees who were counted on to halt their own clinical practices and adapt their skillsets to tackle the pandemic. In this article, we present 10 brief narratives from the student members of the Neurosurgery Publication Group at Weill Cornell Medical College and members of the Weill Cornell Medicine Neurological Surgery Residency Program and Department of Neurological Surgery faculty. Reflecting on these individual experiences gives us an opportunity to simultaneously contribute to a history of New York City's reaction to COVID-19 and commemorate the individuals who were impacted by or succumbed to this disease.
针对纽约市 2019 年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行的独特需求，各专科部门迅速做出反应，几乎没有时间进行反思和纪念。大流行初期，医疗系统承受了前所未有的压力，这需要对医院进行重组，重新分配医护人员，并转变护理和教育模式，以满足患者护理需求和公共卫生需求。随着纽约市的病例、重症监护病房患者和死亡人数的飙升，许多人在某种程度上感到困惑，难以理解这些数字所代表的人类价值。在统计数据中，很容易忽略那些被寄予厚望的医生和住院医师的故事和经历，他们被要求停止自己的临床实践，并调整自己的技能来应对大流行。在本文中，我们介绍了来自威尔康奈尔医学院神经外科学出版小组的学生成员以及威尔康奈尔医学神经外科学住院医师计划和神经外科系教员的 10 个简短叙述。反思这些个人经历使我们有机会既为纽约市对 COVID-19 的反应做出贡献，又纪念那些受到该疾病影响或因此而死亡的人。
