Healthcare Hero: Uchechi Oddiri, MD, FAAP, Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Stony Brook University Renaissance School of Medicine; Pediatric Intensivist, Stony Brook Children's Hospital
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Healthcare Hero: Uchechi Oddiri, MD, FAAP, Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Stony Brook University Renaissance School of Medicine; Pediatric Intensivist, Stony Brook Children's Hospital
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I typically care for critically-ill patients from infants to adolescent children. We have a huge breadth of acuity in our unit. But when the pandemic hit, we were faced with doing something we typically didn’t do in our day-to-day. We pitched in to help care for adult patients. This actually turned out to be a very eye-opening experience. We had adult patients introduce us to their kids on FaceTime, and many of us being parents ourselves, it just hit us. It could just as easily be any one of us in that hospital bed. You don’t feel that as much when caring for patients so much younger than you. It really helped us to empathize on a whole new level. We also had a spike in our younger patients coming in with post-COVID Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children, which was something else we had never seen before. It was just all uncharted territory, but we stepped up. We showed strength and resilience because we had to – for our patients. I think it’s helped us to become better doctors and better people. We were tested, and we proved to ourselves that we can reach higher limits than we ever thought possible.
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2021-06-13
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