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Opinion: Hospitals shouldn’t be clogged with COVID patients
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Northeast Georgia Medical Center Registered Nurses Cheyenne White and Kim Metzdorf check on a COVID patient Friday, March 12, 2021, in the COVID critical care unit of the Gainesville hospital. - photo by Scott Rogers
On Sept. 29, I suffered a serious ankle dislocation and heart attack and was transported to the emergency room at the old Chestatee hospital where I was quickly and professionally served by the staff and sent home with instructions to seek further medical help from an orthopedic and cardiac surgeon due to my age, 84.