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A bit like military reserve duty. Dr. Yosef Ayzenberg, Patients feel much more stressed. Matan Rothschild, a Nitzan Goldberg, medical student, physician assistant in
specialist in internal medicine and emergency medical student and physician assistant in the Orthopedic the Surgical ER (Photo: Dean Ariel)
medicine (Photo: Dean Ariel) ER (Photo: Dean Ariel)
Michael Murninkas, a new immigrant from
Matan Rothschild and Nitzan Goldberg Uruguay, is a medical student, who took a
are sixth-year medical students at Ben- temporary break from his studies to conduct
Gurion University. Both work as physician research in the field of electrophysics, focusing
assistants in the ER at Soroka. Matan on cardiac arrhythmias. At the same time, he
referred to how much more stress patients works as a physician assistant and is working
coming into the ER are experiencing, duty shifts in the Internal Medicine ER. Now,
regardless of their condition, and Nitzan during the crisis, he is working more duty shifts
described the major drop in visits to the and spending hours upon hours at the hospital.
Surgical ER due to car accidents, so here’s His research will have to wait.
something else good that’s come out of
this crisis - fewer traffic accidents.
