Darcy Mainville ’15

Darcy Mainville ’15, Loma Linda University My experience with COVID could be summarized in 2 words: ‘roller coaster’. In the ED, I have had several shifts waiting for the “the COVID tent” to fill with several patients so I could don PPE and go examine them all at once. Most were fine to go home…

Brett Schaeffer ’17

Brett Schaeffer ’17, Loma Linda University The MICU was the ‘bus stop’ for all ICU level of care patients. Everything would come through us and when ‘cleared’ would travel on to the appropriate service (SICU, NMCCS, CCU, etc). Thankfully, many of those patients continued on their journey to the next service and did not have…

Laren Tan ’09

Laren Tan ’09, Loma Linda University Due to visitor restrictions, the phrase ‘seeing is believing’ during the COVID19 outbreak has taken a new meaning when attempting to describe over the phone how deathly ill a patient is to their loved ones. No longer is the clinician able to see and interpret the body language of…

Dafne Moretta ’11

Dafne Moretta ’11, Loma Linda University I used to find comfort in the phrase, ‘We’ll do everything we can to keep him alive until you get here.’ Not anymore. This virus has robbed us of the opportunity to keep patients alive, and the possibility of dying among the presence of their loved ones. Mourning in…

Brent W. Hildebrand ’80-B

~ June 3, 2020 Brent W. Hildebrand ’80-B passed away June 3, 2020, at his home in Loma Linda after a brave two-year battle with renal cancer. Dr. Hildebrand attended Wisconsin Academy and Andrews University. He then graduated from Walla Walla College with a degree in electrical engineering, followed by joining the 1980-B class at…

Robert D. Huse ’65

October 10, 1941 – May 27, 2020 Robert D. Huse ’65 died in Dunlap, Tennessee, on May 27, 2020, at the age of 78, following a brief illness. He was born to Doris and A. Arthur Huse ’27 on October 10, 1941, in Birmingham, England. He attended Columbia Union College in Maryland and graduated from…

Nick Walters ’89

Nick Walters ’89, Bangkok Adventist Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand. My first patient with suspected COVID-19 was more than a month ago. She was a 24-year-old woman with some autoimmune disease who came into the hospital with cough and fever and deteriorated rapidly over the next few to 4 days and was put on a ventilator and…