Marie Brenner > Quotes

“It’s the quiet times that I think are the hardest … you think about these things.”
― Marie Brenner, The Desperate Hours: One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines

“The press did not get the half of it. People were wearing scuba gear and they were showing up and they were doing their best, and their best was not good enough. And you knew that the disease was so bad so many were going to die no matter how good you were.”
― Marie Brenner, The Desperate Hours: One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines

“The suicide of Lorna Breen became a tipping point, the moment the hospital began to understand the level of PTSD the medical staff was suffering.”
― Marie Brenner, The Desperate Hours: One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines

“I would come and unpack my clothes and try to be normal with my family, but in my mind I am seeing people die and families screaming on FaceTime in the background. And they can’t be there when their loved ones are dying.”
― Marie Brenner, The Desperate Hours: One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines

“it would be “infinitely more gut-wrenching to take somebody off a ventilator, leading to their immediate death, than to say, ‘We recommend against having you put on a ventilator.’ It’s a big difference.”
― Marie Brenner, The Desperate Hours: One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines

“They were not divine, but they did divine things.”
― Marie Brenner, The Desperate Hours: One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines