I’ve worked a lot the past two weeks. Things aren’t improving.

I tried transferring some sick patients yesterday — from a smaller hospital to larger facilities with more beds and more specialty resources.

Pretty much every hospital in our region was on ‘closure’ or ‘diversion’, which meant that emergency medical services (EMS) were being told to try to find other places and that the hospitals weren’t accepting transfers.

Patient volumes are high. EMS stretchers line up in front of our desks like tragic train cars from some war zone.