by Clinton | Jun 1, 2021 | Shelbyville, Shelbyville-Feature
In patient after patient, the COVID-19 virus attacks your lungs. You may have heard that it contributes to pneumonia or COVID pneumonia. The virus causes inflammation in the lungs. With inflamed lungs comes fluid. The organ usually filled with air begins to fill with...
by Clinton | Jun 1, 2021 | Shelbyville, Shelbyville-Feature
Imagine walking into work and the first thing you have to do is develop an action plan to treat a patient who has been shot, another patient who has pneumonia from COVID-19, and another patient who just had a heart attack. That is every day for Jeff Miller, a...
by Clinton | Jun 1, 2021 | Shelbyville, Shelbyville-Feature
Dr. Troy Miller, the director of hospital medicine at Van- derbilt Bedford Hospital, researched through evidence from hospitals in cities that were already hit by the pan- demic. He knew it was coming to his hospital soon and wanted to be prepared to care for the...
by Clinton | Jun 1, 2021 | Shelbyville, Shelbyville-Feature
January 1, 2021, was the first day in more than 250 days that Donya Neal got to take a day off as an Infection Control Practitioner at the Vanderbilt Bedford Hospital. Since mid-April 2020, she had worked seven days a week for more than eight months straight. Donya’s...
by Clinton | Jun 1, 2021 | Shelbyville, Shelbyville-Feature
“I heard a bad quote in mid-April of last year from a healthcare provider. It was not someone I knew directly,” Dr. Austin Mackens said. The bad quote he heard was “I did not sign up for this.” “My first thought was “No, this is what you signed up for. We signed up to...
