*Check out this message from NYU doctors to Langone leadership, suggesting that* *Dean Robert Grossman—whose total compensation for 2017 was $7,758,904—grant* *one-fifth to one-quarter of that whopping sum to pay 1,000 housestaff on the front* *lines $1250 @: *https://imgur.com/a/Kw60T4O
*MCM* Nurses suspended for refusing COVID-19 care without N95 mask https://news.yahoo.com/nurses-suspended-refusing-covid-19-041941921.html <http://www.ap.org/> MARTHA MENDOZA and KIMBERLEE KRUESI , Associated Press <http://www.ap.org/>•April 16, 2020 Ad: video resumes in 30s Nurse Mike Gulick was meticulous about not bringing the coronavirus <https://apnews.com/VirusOutbreak> home to his wife and their 2-year-old daughter. He’d stop at a hotel after work just to take a shower. He’d wash his clothes in Lysol disinfectant. They did a tremendous amount of handwashing. But at Providence Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, California, Gulick and his colleagues worried that caring for infected patients without first being able to don an N95 respirator mask <https://apnews.com/cbed1f366882b07ecc5a45cdee9f4e1e> was risky. The N95 mask filters out 95% of all airborne particles, including ones too tiny to be blocked by regular masks. But administrators at his hospital said they weren’t necessary and didn’t provide them, he said. His wife, also a nurse, not only wore an N95 mask but covered it with a second air-purifying respirator while she cared for COVID-19 patients at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center across town in Los Angeles. Then, last week, a nurse on Gulick’s ward tested positive for the coronavirus, which causes the disease COVID-19. The next day doctors doing rounds on their ward asked the nurses why they weren’t wearing N95 masks, Gulick said, and told them they should have better protection. For Gulick, that was it. He and a handful of nurses told their managers they wouldn’t enter COVID-19 patient rooms without N95 masks. *Click on the link for the rest.* OPINION <https://www.newsday.com/opinion>COLUMNISTS <https://www.newsday.com/opinion/columnists>MARK CHIUSANO <https://www.newsday.com/opinion/columnists/mark-chiusano> [image: /opinion/columnists/mark-chiusano] By Mark Chiusano <[email protected]?subject=Some%20New%20York%20residents%20and%20fellows%20want%20hazard%20pay,%20more%20support&body=Some%20hospital%20residents%20and%20fellows,%20many%20of%20whom%20have%20worked%20virtually%20non-stop%20during%20the%20COVID-19%20response%20and%20who%20earn%20less%20than%20more-experienced%20staff,%20are%20becoming%20frustrated.%20And%20a%20petition%20for%0D%0Ahttps://www.newsday.com/opinion/columnists/mark-chiusano/coronavirus-covid-19-hazard-pay-essential-workers-hospitals-new-york-1.43875887> <https://twitter.com/mjchiusano> Some New York residents and fellows want hazard pay, more support [image: Some New Yorkers are petitioning for hazard pay] Some New Yorkers are petitioning for hazard pay for medical professionals. Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto/NanoStockk Updated April 15, 2020 12:52 PM https://www.newsday.com/opinion/columnists/mark-chiusano/coronavirus-covid-19-hazard-pay-essential-workers-hospitals-new-york-1.43875887 Some hospital residents and fellows, many of whom have worked virtually non-stop during the COVID-19 response and who earn less than more-experienced staff, are becoming frustrated. And a petition for hazard pay as well as life and disability insurance at NYU Langone underscores both the many fears of medical staff caring for patients at the epicenter of a pandemic, and the array of challenges facing strained hospitals in delivering such care. The staff emphasizes that they are honored to care for the patients and undertake more clinical responsibilities, but the petition is a plea for more support. “As doctors, we are committed to serving our patients,” says the petition, a copy of which Newsday obtained Tuesday. “However, during this unprecedented time, we now find ourselves and our families at risk in ways we never imagined.” *Click on the link for the rest.* -- If you appreciate News From Underground, please consider making a donation — either a one-time gift or a monthly subscription: http://markcrispinmiller.com/support/ Thank you for your support. Ways to unsubscribe: 1) send a blank email to [email protected] PLEASE NOTE: you must unsubscribe using the SAME email with which you subscribed 2) go to http://groups.google.com/group/newsfromunderground and click on the "Unsubscribe or change membership" link in the yellow bar at the top of the page, then click the "Unsubscribe" button on the next page. For more News From Underground, visit http://markcrispinmiller.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "News From Underground" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/newsfromunderground/CAGxB6W_%3D8dbEDpygsfXV8-OQ6-1v_-q3g%3DhTrVEreTQFfg0%3DOw%40mail.gmail.com.
