Emily McIllwain

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“I remember being in the respiratory area,” he said. This was on the second floor. “We all took oxygen tubing from the wall and just…had it just blowing all over me because it was so hot.” Did he realize how terrible this could sound when Dr. Bryant King and others had spoken of running out of oxygen for patients in the second-floor lobby? Why weren’t patients who needed oxygen carried to wherever it was, on the same floor, that oxygen could so easily be had?
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
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