A newly published perspective piece in the New England Journal of Medicine describes how volunteer health professionals in Minneapolis created informal care systems during Operation Metro Surge, often without official approval, to keep treating patients.
The New England Journal of Medicine has shared a perspective essay describing how volunteer health care professionals responded during Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis, setting up improvised systems to continue treating patients who were, in the words of the post, “terrified.” The piece is co-authored by Munira Maalimisaq, a family nurse practitioner and public health nurse, alongside Jennifer Needle-Suarez, MD, MPH, MPA, as named in the journal’s post.
According to the journal’s post, the volunteers acted quickly and frequently without institutional authorisation — meaning they worked outside the normal chain of hospital or clinic approval. The essay frames this as a direct response to urgent patient need rather than a breakdown in procedure.
The NEJM published the account as a perspective piece, a format the journal uses for first-hand or analytical writing that sits alongside its peer-reviewed research. It is not a clinical study, and no statistics or outcome data were included in the information shared publicly.
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Source: @NEJM