Healthcare heroes: Voices of the caregivers who got us through COVID-19
Posted May 09, 2021
‘COVID is a slow-moving disaster that slowly wears you down’ It has been frustrating seeing human beings, people who have died from COVID who could have been saved by masking, distancing, and later vaccinating, said Dr. William Paolo, acting chair of emergency medicine at Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse, NY.
Dr. William Paolo, associate professor of emergency medicine; associate professor of public health and preventive medicine and interim chairman of emergency medicine, Upstate University Hospital, Syracuse, NY
As a teen I was a bit of a hypochondriac and developed a fascination with microbes. I went to medical school to learn about them. I fell in love with emergency medicine. I’ve been with Upstate since 2009.