Credit Ryan Garza / Bridge Michigan
With an eye on his father’s bloodied face, Barry Jensen began punching numbers into his cell phone from the hospital emergency room.
His 90-year-old dad had fallen on a gravel driveway. His glasses were broken. His family worried that his bones might be, too.
Seats inside the Beaumont Hospital emergency room in the downriver Detroit community of Trenton were filled that day in late March. Several people lay on gurneys.
The son remembers thinking “it looked like a scene from a disaster movie, just on a smaller scale.”
A doctor might be free to see his father in another three, four, maybe even five hours, Jensen was told.
Workers weary, patients angry, as COVID-19 fills Michigan hospitals again By Robin Erb, Bridge Michigan, and Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press
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With an eye on his father’s bloodied face, Barry Jensen began punching numbers into his cellphone from the hospital emergency room.
His 90-year-old dad had fallen on a gravel driveway. His glasses were broken. His family worried that his bones might be, too.
Seats inside the Beaumont Hospital emergency room in the Downriver community of Trenton were filled that day in late March. Several people lay on gurneys.
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