Brooke Wagen in front of her home in Austin on May 15, 2021. As a first-year resident, Wagen has never worked as a doctor outside of the COVID-19 pandemic. Credit: Montinique Monroe for the Texas Tribune
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Brooke Wagen said her first day as an internal medicine resident at Dell Seton Medical Center’s intensive care unit during Texas’ COVID-19 summer surge was like being hit by a train.
For the first four hours of her 28-hour shift, she learned how to place orders with the hospital’s computer system. Though many details have since blurred together, the 44-year-old remembers a coronavirus patient who came in around 10 p.m. and needed an arterial line, a thin tube that makes it easier to check blood pressure and oxygen levels.
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