My scrubs and title empower people to ask me, “What’s it like to be on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic?” These people are well-intended, but they have it wrong.

I’m not on the front line. Rather, as a [physician assistant]-intensivist who never leaves the ICU, I’m the last line of defense.

I’m part of a team that deals with the sickest patients in the hospital. My patients need invasive machines and potent medications to maintain proper oxygen levels in their blood to stay alive.

Some develop multisystem organ failure and require machines to not only take control of their breathing but also of their cardiac or kidney function.

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