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I'm actually surprised the NT Times printed this. I'd link it, but phuck the NY Times. Like this is a big freaking surprise to white leftards who subscribe to fake news and then tell me how morally superior they are.
The Doctor Came to Save Lives. The Co-op Board Told Him to Get Lost.
When an emergency room doctor traveled from New Hampshire to battle the coronavirus in New York, he moved into his brother’s building … but not for long. At the end of seven hours in mask, gown and gloves at Bellevue Hospital Center on Monday, Dr. Richard Levitan finally had a chance to look at his phone.
Dr. Levitan, an emergency physician who lives in northern New Hampshire, had volunteered to work for 10 days at Bellevue, in Manhattan, as coronavirus patients besieged New York City hospitals. Monday was his first shift there.
A text had arrived from his older brother, who was letting him use an apartment on the Upper West Side. It read: “Hey Richard — We are so proud of you and your heroism. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but looks like our apartment building doesn’t want you staying in our apt.”
The building’s board of directors wanted him out.
That took a minute to sink in.
On the one hand, Dr. Levitan was answering the state’s urgent plea for help in the worst public health crisis in decades.
On the other, his brother was dealing with the idiosyncratic creature known as a New York City co-op, run by a board of apartment owners. Within their four walls, co-ops are tiny nation-states, like thousands of Vatican Cities inside the five boroughs.
So, while Dr. Levitan was working to save the lives of strangers, his brother was pleading with his neighbors on the board to let his sibling lay his head in the apartment. He got nowhere. The board had heard what he was doing and did not want him around.
That kind of thing is rampant and emerges in many shapes, if rarely so outrageously as the shunning of a medical volunteer. Governors were talking about pulling over cars with New York plates, and people in rural areas were mad about city residents who had fled to their second homes. In the city, people want to know if anyone in their building has tested positive, though with the virus so widespread, the only safe course is to assume that some neighbor has it or had it, and to take precautions.
Fear can make ordinary people turn valorous or villainous or just unattractive.
As it happens, when Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo implored medical volunteers around the country to come to New York, he might have been speaking directly to Dr. Levitan.
Born in New York City, Dr. Levitan, 58, trained at Bellevue under Lewis R. Goldfrank, a towering, pioneering figure in emergency medicine. Dr. Levitan later practiced in Philadelphia and became a teaching guru on managing the human airway — including performing the tricky but vital task of intubation, threading a breathing tube into people who are not getting enough oxygen.
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Back at the apartment building on Monday evening, he confirmed the news from his brother: The doorman told him that he was not allowed in, and called the superintendent. Dr. Levitan video-recorded the conversation.
“You’re telling me I’m not welcome to stay in this apartment?” Dr. Levitan asked.
“I’m afraid, doctor, that is not my decision, unfortunately, but that is the situation, unfortunately,” the superintendent responded, sounding miserable.
“Why is that?”
“I guess they’re afraid of you bringing this virus with you,” the superintendent said.
Dr. Levitan got his belongings and found another place. He wondered how many people in the building he had been barred from were already infected. “I came from rural New Hampshire where my risk was very low,” he said.
When asked by The New York Times about the episode, the building’s manager would not comment, but offered to pass on an inquiry to the board. No one replied to that, or to phone messages and emails left with board members.
“In war, there are a mil
The Doctor Came to Save Lives. The Co-op Board Told Him to Get Lost.
When an emergency room doctor traveled from New Hampshire to battle the coronavirus in New York, he moved into his brother’s building … but not for long. At the end of seven hours in mask, gown and gloves at Bellevue Hospital Center on Monday, Dr. Richard Levitan finally had a chance to look at his phone.
Dr. Levitan, an emergency physician who lives in northern New Hampshire, had volunteered to work for 10 days at Bellevue, in Manhattan, as coronavirus patients besieged New York City hospitals. Monday was his first shift there.
A text had arrived from his older brother, who was letting him use an apartment on the Upper West Side. It read: “Hey Richard — We are so proud of you and your heroism. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but looks like our apartment building doesn’t want you staying in our apt.”
The building’s board of directors wanted him out.
That took a minute to sink in.
On the one hand, Dr. Levitan was answering the state’s urgent plea for help in the worst public health crisis in decades.
On the other, his brother was dealing with the idiosyncratic creature known as a New York City co-op, run by a board of apartment owners. Within their four walls, co-ops are tiny nation-states, like thousands of Vatican Cities inside the five boroughs.
So, while Dr. Levitan was working to save the lives of strangers, his brother was pleading with his neighbors on the board to let his sibling lay his head in the apartment. He got nowhere. The board had heard what he was doing and did not want him around.
That kind of thing is rampant and emerges in many shapes, if rarely so outrageously as the shunning of a medical volunteer. Governors were talking about pulling over cars with New York plates, and people in rural areas were mad about city residents who had fled to their second homes. In the city, people want to know if anyone in their building has tested positive, though with the virus so widespread, the only safe course is to assume that some neighbor has it or had it, and to take precautions.
Fear can make ordinary people turn valorous or villainous or just unattractive.
As it happens, when Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo implored medical volunteers around the country to come to New York, he might have been speaking directly to Dr. Levitan.
Born in New York City, Dr. Levitan, 58, trained at Bellevue under Lewis R. Goldfrank, a towering, pioneering figure in emergency medicine. Dr. Levitan later practiced in Philadelphia and became a teaching guru on managing the human airway — including performing the tricky but vital task of intubation, threading a breathing tube into people who are not getting enough oxygen.
=========
Back at the apartment building on Monday evening, he confirmed the news from his brother: The doorman told him that he was not allowed in, and called the superintendent. Dr. Levitan video-recorded the conversation.
“You’re telling me I’m not welcome to stay in this apartment?” Dr. Levitan asked.
“I’m afraid, doctor, that is not my decision, unfortunately, but that is the situation, unfortunately,” the superintendent responded, sounding miserable.
“Why is that?”
“I guess they’re afraid of you bringing this virus with you,” the superintendent said.
Dr. Levitan got his belongings and found another place. He wondered how many people in the building he had been barred from were already infected. “I came from rural New Hampshire where my risk was very low,” he said.
When asked by The New York Times about the episode, the building’s manager would not comment, but offered to pass on an inquiry to the board. No one replied to that, or to phone messages and emails left with board members.
“In war, there are a mil
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