While many of us follow stay-at-home orders and wait for lockdowns to end, healthcare workers continue to battle on the frontlines against the novel coronavirus.
Doctors and nurses from all hospital departments suddenly found themselves as first responders in intensive care units intubating patient after patient, trying to treat and prevent the spread of the highly-infectious disease.
One of them is Dr Tazeen Beg, an anesthesiologist at Stony Brook University Medical Center in Long Island, New York – a 600-bed facility that essentially turned into a COVID-19 hospital.
The 53-year-old has treated hundreds of patients over these last two months and says there are several moments that have ‘stayed with her’ during such unprecedented times.
Speaking with DailyMail.com, Beg explained what her days have been like, the challenges she and her co-workers face as they treat seriously ill patients, and the heartbreaking moment in which a patient asked her if he was going to die.
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JNMC Year of Graduation: MBBS 1991, MS (General Surgery) 2001
JNMC Year of Graduation: MBBS 1990, MD (Pediatrics) 1993. Won 3 Gold Medals and President of India’s Silver Medal during MBBS.
JNMC Year of Graduation: MBBS 1976, MD (Medicine)1980
JNMC Year of Graduation: MBBS 1992, MD Radiology (1992-95, did not finish, moved to US)
JNMC Year of Graduation: MBBS 1995
JNMC Year of Graduation: MBBS 1996
JNMC Year of Graduation: MBBS 2002, MD (Radiology) 2007
JNMC Year of Graduation: MBBS 2005, MD (Pathology) 2008
JNMC Year of Graduation: MBBS 1991, MD (Anesthesiology) 1994.
Dr. Ashraf Khan received his medical (MBBS) degree in 1980 from Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, AMU, Aligarh, India following which he did 3-year postgraduate training (MD) in Pathology and then joined as a lecturer in Pathology at the same institution in 1983. In 1985 Dr. Khan moved to England where he trained in Histopathology at Lewisham and Guy’s Hospital of the University of London. This training included experience of working at the Hedley Atkins Breast Unit of the Imperial Cancer Research Foundation at Guy’s Hospital under Dr. Rosemary Millis an internationally recognized breast pathologist who inspired him to become interested in breast pathology. After serving as a senior Registrar in Histopathology for 3 years at Guy’s Hospital and passing the MRCPath examination, Dr. Khan migrated to the United States in 1993 to join as a Surgical Pathology Fellow at University of Massachusetts Medical Center (UMMC). This one-year fellowship was followed by his appointment as an Assistant Professor in Pathology at UMMC in 1994, and worked his way up to his present position as Professor of Pathology (since 2005). He is currently the Director of Surgical Pathology and served as Director of Pathology Residency Program from 2001-08 at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is actively involved in the UMASS medical center and medical school administrative functions serving on the Faculty Council, Medical School Admissions Committee, Cancer Committee, and Director of Clinical Labs at UMASS’s Hahnemann and Memorial campuses and Quality Assurance Coordinator of the Hospital Tumor Registry among others.