Diary of a Trauma Surgeon: 10 Weeks of Covid-19 | WIRED
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- Опубликовано: 11 июн 2024
- Los Angeles-based trauma surgeon Annie Onishi documents 10 weeks of her life working inside a hospital during the Covid-19 pandemic. Annie chronicles what everything has been like, from her first patients and deaths until the present.
Annie Onishi is a trauma surgeon and surgical critical care doctor in Los Angeles, California.
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I am an anesthesiologist who had the pleasure of working with this young, great doctor. She is phenomenal and I wish her continued success. Great person.
That’s awesome. I hope you’re staying safe ❤️
Thank you to every anesthesiologist who volunteered to help Covid-19 patients in the ICU. Couldn't have done it without you.
Stay safe.U people are doing a phenomenal job.
I want to be an anesthesiologist when I an older, I'm 14 and I already made a drug dictionary with medications such as propofol, Haldol and midazolam
@@ryannadernejad2814 go for it, it's great to see someone who's working on their goals early on!
I love this woman. She knows her craft, she's poised, she's empathic, she's respectful... Such a beautiful human being. And a great professional.
Make more music videos Bilonda 👍
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Dr. Q Haha! Will do.
she's hot
.m., who Bilonda or Annie
Or both
i saw annie and i clicked
I love her :)
same
Exactly what I did, too. I'll watch any video that features Annie, regardless of topic. Such an inspiring human being.
A beautiful person, outside and in. Intelligent, strong, and an absolute treasure. Thank you for all you do, Annie. We love you!
This.
"Dude got shot in the heart, we saved him"
During any other time this would have been a story of itself. Now, it's a side note
Also the comment section would be filled with Bon Jovi jokes
Shot through the heart and no covid to blame! He'll be fine, in five days!
Yeah when she said that she saved a person shot directly in the heart so nonchalantly I was like hold up what
You know that guy was living on a prayer when he got shot through the heart.
Well now you're to blame
Sergouns do this on a weekly basis and rarely get press.
Seeing her crying really strikes me 😢
Since most tv drs are fakes who don’t care about anyone but themselves.
@@LloydWaldo ok llyod
It should not only weak people cry for no reason.
@@fermion9044 You think a doctor crying during a pandemic would be crying for no reason? Alright.
We all cry sometimes.
She’s done all this and hasn’t even seen her husband since March. An actual hero
@Naughtysauce have some respect
Definitely not good.
@Naughtysauce Disgusting human being, that is what you are.
Naughtysauce yo guys look edgy kid alert :D
@Naughtysauce sad... bad troll. that is not worth reading. you fail as a human being.
Dang, she totally holds it together the whole time despite people dropping dead left and right, that's the kinda person I want taking care of me if I get smacked down by Covid.
Hopefully you wont
EnLiGhTeNME, idiot he’s saying that if he gets infected or gets an injury he would like a medical professional who can handle stress well even when seeing a lot of patients left and right. Use your brain.
@@heartcomedy5 These right wing idiots have a deficiency in reading comprehension.
If you really believe people are “dropping dead left and right” you’ve been locked up too long and have zero critical thinking skills.
@@lesliehathaway9740 are you a flat earther ?
Man it is people like this that really deserve respect and awards, those people who push themselves everyday so that they can help others get well.
Ya, I know, and yet we still are so worried about what some Star wears on the red carpet. Cheering and rooting for people who live their fake lives. :(
Show this to the white house!
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Awards? Like an Oscar?
Olivia Willes
She literally got all charges dropped.
I can't emphasize enough the fact that she applied for emergency privileges across the COUNTRY because as a doctor she knows her skills are needed and would have been extremely valuable. What an incredible asset to her field.
In addition to keeping countless patients alive, she is somehow also keeping an orchid alive????? I can't do that under the best of circumstances.
Orchids are pretty easy if you have good humidity
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Same lol
🤣🤣🤣
actually with orchids just like she said with covid patients less is more....often if I water my orchids less they do better.
Did she say that a guy stabbed himself all over including the eyes?! Doc, you people are otherworldly in your capacity to deal with stuff. Carry on.
I had the same reaction to that story.
See similar crazy stuff working in prisons. Most prisons just send those guys to the ER because the medical staff in prison aren't equipped or even close to mentally prepared to deal with some dude stabbing himself, much less a pandemic.
ZeratultheDark I mean stab wounds are what the ER is for... I don’t believe that prisons have the capabilities of caring for ER victims... it’s not a mental capability but a physical capability like ORs, CT’s, etc.
I live in this area and it wasn't even on the news. Super insane and scary story. Makes me wonder how many do this time themselves
" it's an honour and a privilege to look after patients "
Doctors have the purest soul. Gosh when will this end
Not all of them but yes I do believe this one does.
most of the! are only in for the money and are pejorative towards their victims
annie onishi must be protected at all costs
She IS wearing PPE
@@brandonwei2430 Not enough. We require bubble wrap and duct tape.
Can they broadcast this on Florida's beaches? Because our numbers have gone up exponentially since we started reopening the past few weeks. Everyone's acting like it doesnt exist anymore
Florida has had zero care about all of this lol
That sucks, stay safe!
I totally agree with you!!
people don't care about Covid anymore....so what if thousands of new infections and hundreds die everyday...people won't care about those things.....but if one black person is shot....expect protests and outrage everywhere!
Its espeacially raised in may so its been only one month and in news they said locked down helped a lot and it stopped but we see its not true
I still remember the morning we heard Covid-19 had touched LA. Everyone was super quiet in the ER. As if we were mentally preparing ourselves for what was about to come.
We went through that in oregon. We knew it was going to be bad but there was no way to really prepare for how bad
Thank you for your service
Thank you for risking your life to save us
Thank you for your service. I'm not a doctor or a nurse, and I'll probably never be one, but I understand how stressed doctors and nurses were before the pandemic. I can't believe the pressure that they currently have, I have mad respect for them.
This is what we call the silence before the storm.. thank you for your service 🤍
There's something so painful about seeing a strong person cry...
I love that a trauma surgeon that spent years to obtain the skills needed to do her job, state that she wants to go help expecting that she will mop floors....
I have struggled for many years with medical professionals that have lost touch with the other side. Drs that I know wouldnt think thier first way of helping would be mopping floors.
thank you. thank you for your service, thank you for risking your safety every day to make sure most of us survive this pandemic, and thank you for your first thought of mopping floors . your story was intresting because it gave me an inside view. seeing your humble nature was an uplifting and encouraging thing bringing me faith that maybe the core attitude of the younger medical professions is shifting.
I don't know, for 400 grand a year I'd happily mop floors.
“Oh it’s Annie Onishi! Say no more, I’m watching this video!”
*23 minutes later*
“Somebody get this woman a hundred hugs, stat!”
Can't. 6 feet.
Quarantine hug tarp
I am an anesthesiologist who had the pleasure of working with this young, great doctor. She is phenomenal and I wish her continued success. Great person.
Air hugs
😢😅
Lord ever since WIRED started posting videos with Annie I've decided I want to be exactly like her when I'm older
What a great idea. Yes, go be a doctor and go save lives or a nurse or a respiratory therapist or physical therapist. All those people are needed to make affected patients better.
Same. I’m not sure if I could handle watching patients with all of these types of things but I would like to help in some other way. Like creating cures and stuff like that or something else that could help
@@Tei_022 yep, you are just going to "make cures" I bet all the scientists in the world will be clamoring to get your research for your "cure". Do you REALLY think you're smart enough to find a COVID cure? LMAOOOOO
@@themagicminstrels476 akalaaa
It's heartbreaking seeing her cry...
And heartwarming at the same time...
U know it's been rough when u see a trauma surgeon cry. Thank you for sacrificing your time and health holding down the ship when the world was in chaos.
Crazy how many people get shot. America is broken, and this woman is a hero
That's because they have too many guns. And any idiot can have a gun.
We have a strong value of liberty over safety, and I prefer it that way
@@gioacevedo5 You also have a tendency to ignore problems until they start affecting white people. Btw: why do you have drivers licences and not gun licenses? They're both potentially dangerous machines (one more than the other) and both require training to use safely.
In Germany we also had 2 people killed in the last 2 days by the police. In both cases the attackers charged at police officers with a knife and got shot. Those 2 cases are already quite crazy because only a few to 20 people get shot and killed by the police each year here.
But the statistics in America are just insane to me: Up to 1000 people get shot each year which is 50-100 times more and the US only has 4 times more people than Germany.
@@Moxtrox there are several gun licenses actually, and purchasing a firearm requires a federal background check. Driving a car, does not.
I feel really bad for her. She seems stressed, tired and worn out. But she's keeping positive and head above the clouds. We need people more people like her who does all she can to help.
That’s what she signed up for and she’s getting paid triple for it so she can continue to live in her mansion. 😒
@@Jacque01 wow
Jacque Im sorry I can’t tell if you’re being mean or not. If you are being mean, you should stop and leave because no one wants to hear your negativity.
Tyson _Schreier Im sorry, I completely agree with what you are saying, I was talking about the Jacque person because I couldn’t tell if their comment was being mean or not. Sorry for the misunderstanding
@@joelikesdonutsxd7138 Oh, you're fine. I must've misunderstood you cause I didn't look. Have a good day.
Everyone just wear your mask. Stop turning this into a political issue help out with something so small and just wear your mask 😷
Promise
@A D No evidence masks do anything especially if you look at the particles on them when you picked them up and put them on.
Yes. My mom pass away because covid. Im glad there people like you care!! ❤
Rob Tranzen I’m so sorry for your loss, I hope you are doing as well as you can right now x
@@lieslduchatelet thx you. It feel good knowing there good hearted people like you. I believe in karma and god. I believe good fortune come to you!!
Here's a woman who is under real stress, but officer karen can't handle getting her mcgriddle a couple minutes late.
Lmao God that video is so... unaware
Go to any hospital now 100% going to be empty . Its scam! Turn off tv and Facebook and check yourself!!!!
For those following, that woman was NOT a police officer. She's some rent-a-cop raging about her lunch break.
@@Bekssss Bad bot.
Reason: 1 has been trained for _years,_ has actual experience doing the right thing, has shadowed _amazing_ senior professionals in the field & took an oath to do her best.
The other has not. It's really that simple.
Medical ICU nurse here that has been there through all the Covid-19 crap. Thank you for all that you do and we will get through this
❤️
You’re welcome
Nurses are even more at risk than doctors per my experience in a Covid ICU. Stay safe and thank you for your cheer and hopefulness.
Thank YOU!
no, we won’t
You said “a young man who got shot directly in the heart..saved him” you are such a badass wow
I'm an ICU nurse in Belgium and it's crazy how much alike our situations are being 10 000 km apart. This pandemic united us all in a way so unexpected. Good luck
Thank you for your service I hope you stay safe and healthy!
She is saying simply like gun shots , gun shots , stabs on chest , eyes she is a strong hearted Doctor.
And here in Germany some ppl keep saying: "COVID-19 doesn't exist. It's just a way to destroy our democracy!" Some ppl are so dumb it hurts. Bless you all and stay healthy!
Thank you:)
That stupidity seems to be world wide sadly
It's so sad and so frustrating... cuz you simply can't discuss with them. It's useless.
Ya I agree
I frankly understand that a lot of people behave like this to comfort themselves and sometimes denial is a natural reflex to deal with fear.. But for the rest of the people that "Covid doesn't exist" they have to be either mentally disordered or completely uneducated! What the world needs is common sense but unfortunately this is hard to find!
this woman just aged 20 years in 20 minutes.
My Latino people. I laughed when her Covid patient asked for a Tamarindo Jarrito and Dr. Onishi knew what it was. She cares so much about her patients.
[Removed] dumb of you to think that latinos are spanish.
She lived in LA. We all know. It’s impossible not to.
This is heartbreaking and I want to give this doctor a big hug (wearing all the necessary PPE of course!). Thank you for sharing this video diary. We are all so grateful for medical stuff risking their lives on a daily basis.
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I'm so sorry that a large portion of this country doesnt take this serious. Stay safe and thank you.
This woman is out here basically risking her life, health and social life to help people and then there’s Karen having a mental breakdown because she has to wear a mask. And Kyle going to the beach and throwing parties
And the rich elite throwing parties just recently a whole bunch of em got together a threw a huge Halloween bash! 🙄
@@NorthernGreenEyes Kendall Jenner who?
I'm just leaving a comment for the RUclips algorithm that tracks video engagement. Stay safe everyone -- for yourself, your loved ones and for Annie and all the other hospital docs out there.
This lady lives her life wanting to take care of people and help them, so honorable.
And to think, while she's out there saving lives there's a woefully misguided group of people waving assault weapons around while demanding haircuts.
KingofHearts not to mention the more pressing and worrying issue of BLM protestors in the thousands marching in close proximity to each other. The vast majority of anti-lockdown protests were in cars, BLM as a movement is much worse
Aron Toulouse to die for a useless movement like BLM? Since you mention it, there is a proportionally higher chance to catch covid during protests, therefor a higher death rate. No one should be outside in large groups, yet because some guy on drugs and a heart condition died and that hurt your feelings, you excuse the infection of possible hundreds?
@Aron Toulouse k, good to know. Your point being....?
@Aron Toulouse that's just anecdotal evidence, it's worthless to me. POCs have equal rights since in 1962 in the US
@Aron Toulouse where have I exactly been racist? Provide quotes please. I am not the one constantly placing black squares on my insta feed so I'm not the NPC here. What does this have to do with god?
she is a genuine hero. what an incredible woman
she's so inspirational with how positive and upbeat she remains, a true heroine in these times.
That’s what she signed up for and she’s getting paid triple for it so she can continue to live in her mansion. 😒
@@Jacque01 I see you like copy & paste huh?
Honestly when she broke down crying, I immediately started to tear up too. She’s usually so snarky and optimistic, so it was a shock to see her breakdown. Kudos to her for being so strong and incredibly sympathetic.
The audacity to call healthcare workers hoaxes baffles me
Just listening to her speak makes me smile. Just a genuinely lovely person.
She's a beautiful human being who deserves as much respect as possible.
I've seen her other videos, and she's clearly smart and funny and tough as a whip -- so to see her tearful reveals a lot about how challenging this pandemic is. I'm grateful for all the great doctors like her.
She was right. Neither the US nor we in the UK should have started opening up that early. So much strife could have been avoided. Annie Onishi is an actual hero.
Exactly. Everybody just thought that 2020 was gone so Covid was gone too.
I'm an RN in a Covid ICU (used to be Surgical and Respiratory). One of my coworkers said, " I just put my head down and do it." We've had 12 of 13 patients intubated at times. Many stay on a vent for weeks. I get you, Annie. I used to do Trauma ICU, that was my favorite. All you health care workers: stay safe!
this is what a hero looks like.
My eyes, almost popped out when she said the Q word 😂. It’s like dropping the F bomb. All healthcare professionals know what I mean.
Despite all the lapses and incompetencies in governance, I guess I have to be thankful that the arguments going on in my country is mostly on preparedness and recovery. Reading the comments here, are people seriously debating whether the disease is real or not? WTF?
Here in the US a terrifying amount of people still think it's a complete consliracy, fake or just not a big deal
yes
Isaiah Rashid there are hundreds of thousands of people (if not millions) who legitimately believe it’s a hoax
Yep. Our media’s so cracked here in the US that people just straight up are hard pressed to believe the stark opposite of what they say. Unfortunately...they’re currently on a parallel path of the truth...
It's not just people who don't believe it's a thing. There are people who know it exists and just don't care. They go out without masks, don't social distance, and go about their lives like normal. Recently I saw a person on the news who said that he knew people who were on ventilators but he was still in a crowd without a mask.
She really is to me the definition of the phrase "not all heroes wear capes"
Not sure if you'll read this. But thank you for all you (and those like you do) Annie. A tip with your orchid is that they don't like to be sitting in water. We water ours by lowering the plant into a bucket of water (up to the top of the pot) and wating for the air bubbles to stop, then lift it out of the water and let it drain. This way the bark is wet and the roots are hydrated but not sitting in water which would rot them.
Same here
Another option: Place 1 or 2 ice cubes on the bark.
I’m sure Tony the orchid would appreciate it very much! 🥰
She is the definition of a hero. If more people were like her the world would be exponentially better. She’s so genuinely kind and empathetic and clearly cares so much for her patients. I hope she’s doing well and knows how appreciated she is
I volunteered during the peak of the epidemic as a nurse aid (I'm a med student) at a Covid-19 ICU, and subsequently at the ER.
During those first 4 weeks at the newly formed ICU for Covid-19+ adults in a pediatric hospital, I remember feeling all those thoughts and emotions : worries about PPE, feeling like you can't do anything do anything but offer supportive and experimental treatments to your patients, losing some people, seeing other's get out, learning more about the disease day to day and somehow being even more confused about treatment protocols, talking to families (there were two patients whose infidelities had emerged, one whose brother had died and the family refused to tell him...).
The ER, after a month of social distancing, was somehow relaxing compared to that.
I had a lot of respect for Annie before this video but after watching this I would literally do anything for her
To anyone who works in a hospital....surgeon, physician, physician's assistant, nurse, CNA, administrator, lab tech, respiratory specialist, anesthesiologist, nurse anesthetist, janitor, cafeteria worker, dietician....anyone......THANK YOU for all you do to keep people as healthy as you know how and for supporting other people so they can keep people healthy.
I never forget a face & I remember when my dad was in the icu & she took care of him before COVID ever happened. She made us feel like family when we found out my dad had a tumor in his brain & will go blind with or without the tumor .
When it showed the texts to her friends in New York, something in me as a New Yorker broke.
As a medical student, you are one of those people out there that keeps us motivated and inspired. Special type of doctor we all hope to be. Thank you!
I didn't know that what I was feeling was survivor's guilt. I'm a doctor and I felt totally useless that I couldn't be of service in the first few months of this covid pandemic because I was advised to not go out because I was on my first trimester of pregnancy. I felt so torn whether I should take care of myself first or to be of service.
Tomorrow will come, and your help will be needed. Today, the life, growing inside of you needs you. I can’t imagine a person who would fault you. All I can imagine, is how you will one day be caring for us again, and touching the lives of people who may very well need you at a critical point in their lives. You, the hero, will always be there. And your child needs you now, needs your protection, your heroic valor. Who knows how they might one day touch the lives of so many as you have, and will do once again. Thank you.
Take care of yourself and your little one. Look at all the selfish people going out, throwing a fit about wearing a mask. You and your baby’s life is not worth it.
You do what you can with what you have, when you have it.
Simple in theory, challenging in practice -- the tendency of those with big hearts is to want to help in big ways, but even the little ones can change someone's world for the better.
She is such a fighter, doing things that are at the core of what is admirable. She holds herself onto those little things, keeping herself on a very strict path that would not allow for her spirit to flee. What moral effort would it take to stay strong like that, hard to imagine. What an individual!
I admire this doctor so much. Their sacrifice for the majority of their lives to care for other humans is great. You are amazing people. May we be able to honor this profession.
Insane how likable she is. I want her to have RUclips channel, if she would have time.
Violin MD has her own channel!
@@allie3760 That's not her though
See Dr. Onishi, click without hesitation. A must watch.
I don’t even wanna imagine what it’s like now
my aunt had a surgery and had serious complications so she had to be taken back. There she was diagnosed with flesh eating bacteria and later covid. She had to be transported because her hospital didn't have a ventilator for her since one of her lungs was being attacked. Now no one can go see her and take care of her in the hospital.
Thank you for helping her to share her story. This was very impactful as we just passed 400,000 deaths.
When mom started the proning position all by herself, I was euphoric and so were the doctor and nurses taking care of her
Just speechless. I hope Annie and all of her fellow healthcare worker always in good health and spirit 🙏
Thank you Dr. Onishi, you and all the medical personnel risking your lives for others are amazing.
This could have been 5 hours long.
Imagine working in a place where gunshot wounds are considered routine.
Andy Hale America, especially a racially diverse place like LA where crime is rampant
@@sovietchadster907 Any Hospital with a Trama Unit gets gun shot wounds often, and many of them are failed suicides...
@@davidhollenshead4892 Here in Denmark gunshot wounds are not common at all. Suicide attempts or otherwise 😐
and people have been complaining about wearing masks. really makes you think
It feels unreal that we're coming up on two years in March and there's still no end in sight. We've been through several variants and it's only gotten worse. In the hospital closest to me, there are people waiting for a bed for days, sleeping on the floor while waiting for treatment. Some are even receiving treatment in the waiting room. There just aren't enough people to take care of them. I feel so numb imagining that as doctors have seen the waves come in, so many people have left them to drown.
just an absolute warrior. drafted into this mess.
This is the type of person we should be erecting statues of. What a beautiful, smart, driven, dedicated, compassionate gift to the human race. Thank you!
i've watched and rewatched her videos on wired so many times, so seeing her cry for the first time breaks my heart
Heartbreaking. Thank you, Annie for everything you do.
Gosh I have so much admiration for this woman!
I discovered Annie way early on in the pandemic. God bless her and anyone like her.
One year ago today, working in the healthcare filed over a year and never got COVID. Just tested positive yesterday, stay safe.
❤️
Hope you're okay ❤️
You’re finding out your stronger than you ever imagined!! You’re my new hero!!! Thank You
You are amazing. 5 minutes in and I am already in tears. Thank you thank you for sharing this. Sending you, your family, patients and staff so much strength and love. We are so blessed to have you here in Los Angeles.
Around 5:40 "Help with mopping floors"
All the years of studying, experience etc.
And she's not too big to clean floors. I love her. I really do.
I wish my idiot parents would watch stuff like this instead of 5G conspiracy theory videos on Facebook...
You have no idea how much I can relate to this
Funny, tragic, true. At least they got you!
What is 5G?
Oh gosh.. Can relate to this. Within the last months I heard the wildest conspiracy theories... I feel like some ppl lost their brains.
cannot tell u how badly I relate to this
I think now would be a great time to do another one of these with her with the rise of the Delta Variant and how the waves now compare to the initial
Thank you so much for all your sacrifices and everything you do, Annie.
Respect to her! She is literally looking tired. And she still down 4 da move... to go to N.Y and save patients! An angel! God bless her!
I hope she got the therapy that she obviously needed . It's a tough time. I never saw a doctor break down and cry. It's good to get it out!
Grateful to see the strength of women like Annie, makes me so proud of the humanity it takes to feel that emotional strain and to feel defeated, but to choose to move forward and help people as much as we can. Thank you Annie for your strength and love.
All the doctors, nurses and the medical workers around the world, they deserve everything!!! They all heroes without capes but scrubs and surgical masks!!!
The orchid almost made me cry.
When she cried i teared up involuntarily that feeling went through my phone screen straight to my heart i just felt so sad
It’s just propaganda. She’s lying or doesn’t know her own statistics. On my people dying are already very ill people order early elderly. You’re chances of dying If you’re young and healthy is .02%. She can’t not know Th is. Or she’s conflating a particularly bad region for Covid with a lot of elderly with all regions and not saying this isn’t the case everywhere is a lie
@@jessejive117 oh yeahhh sure sure.. just many elderly dead yeah... nothing serious, yeah, propaganda? yeah definitely.
@@jessejive117 don't think she can talk about patient death or age on the internet. And yeah she's in LA a pretty whack place.
its January 25th. It was the first day of my semester. looking back at a diary like this is heart breaking. about 6 months since june, and only more people have died. I didn't even notice this video existed until now, and it breaks my heart
This made me cry. These past few months in my Brooklyn hospital have been unbelievable. Too many have died. Just too many. Watching her go through the days made me remember how crazy it all was and it’s not over yet.
One of my sisters is the nursing director over all the covid patients in a local hospital. It is so difficult to see all she is going through and not be able to help.
*Thank you for your service!*
Doctors, nurses, etc. are the kind of people you should say that to, because they _save_ lives.
Shoot... it was a short part, but the tears really made it real for me. It's been a year and I'm still trying to process this stuff
To any healthcare worker reading this, thank you so much for what you do everyday!! 💕
This made me sad. I don't like to see Dr. Onishi cry :(
Hang in there doc!
Seeing Annie cry… I can’t 🥲😪