The back of her colleague’s scrubs is soaked through with sweat. Seven airways in ten hours- and now it is her turn. He reaches for the door. “Good luck out there.”

 

Told through the eyes of Dr. Carla Mitchell, a young anesthesiologist and new mother, Code Blue is a first-hand account of what patients and their doctors went through during the height of COVID-19. From operating rooms to overflowing ICUs, it is a look at the behind-the-scenes reality of critical medical care: the preparation, the procedures, and the physical, emotional, and psychological toll of showing up every day when the stakes could not be higher.

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Through hope, gratitude, despondence, and burnout, Carla traces her own path through perhaps the largest period of upheaval in modern medical history. Along the way, the journey requires her to delve deep within her own morality, finding stability in her infant daughter, to determine what- and who- she is really fighting for.