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 At two hospitals, sadness in the time of COVID can be overwhelming
The Suffolk Times
Riverhead News-Review
Shelter Island Reporter
In the emergency rooms and intensive care units at Peconic Bay Medical Center and Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital, the days are often long, physically and emotionally exhausting and, for some on the staff, excruciatingly sad.
Last winter and spring, COVID-19 was a brush fire that refused to go out. Positive virus cases rose, deaths were commonplace; then summer arrived and things slowed down dramatically.
Now, the fire has restarted from embers that never fully cooled. COVID-19 numbers — positive cases and deaths — are mounting. For Tara Anglim at PBMC and Shota Mamukashvili at ELIH, this means dealing with patients and their families and, in some cases, helping family members say their final goodbyes to people they love...
Photo Caption: Shota Mamukashvili, a registered nurse and emergency nurse manager at Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital, in front of the Greenport facility’s emergency room. (Credit: Steve Wick)
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