Clinical

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CLINICAL takes you on an immersive journey into the inner workings of a hospital, offering a rare glimpse into the heart of an institution that is both complex and essential to our well-being. Hosts Stephen Dark and Mitch Sears guide listeners through the hidden and often overlooked corners of the hospital, shining a light on the unsung heroes who perform critical, behind-the-scenes roles. Through engaging storytelling, they uncover the untold, compelling lives of these individuals whose remarkable efforts, sacrifices, and dedication bring a human touch to the medical professionals we rely on in times of illness. These intimate stories reveal the depth of compassion, resilience, and humanity in those who care for us when we need it most.

  1. 13/05/2020

    This is 'Clinical'

    Clinical takes you deep into the heart of the institution that is a hospital. Hosts Stephen Dark and Mitch Sears delve into the hidden corners of a hospital, where vital roles are performed by people whose untold, compelling lives and remarkable efforts reveal the human dimension to those we turn to when we fall sick.

    1 min

  2. 19/05/2020

    Pathogen Slayers

    In the midst of a pandemic, it isn’t only doctors and nurses that face down the invisible killer COVID-19. It’s the men and women who clean the hospital and clinics they work in. Clinical’s Stephen Dark talked to Jessica Rivera, a director of Environmental Services, who gave an intimate, at times heart-rending account of battling the virus one wipe at a time.

    23 min

  3. 05/08/2020

    Coming Soon: Unit on the Brink

    Introducing the newest Clinical series: Unit on the Brink: Voices from the COVID Frontline. This multi-part series delves deep into the stories behind the health care workers at University Hospital as they hold the line against the COVID-19 pandemic. Their stories offer a snapshot of the virus bearing down on one state, one group of healers, one Medical ICU. Reported by Stephen Dark, listen as these medical professionals stand united in their sense of a calling even as they risk their lives against an invisible threat.

    6 min

  4. 19/08/2020

    Unit on the Brink: E1 - Duty of Care

    “It’s a battle of wanting to provide care and wanting to protect yourself and the people you love,” says nurse Megan Diehl. This tug of war is one critical care nurses faced constantly through the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic. On the 4th floor of University of Utah Hospital, the medical intensive care unit (MICU) has always treated the very sickest of the sick. The unit’s medical professionals go to extraordinary lengths to save the people in their care. But as the first COVID-19 patients trickled in, these lifesavers discovered that the precautions necessary to protect themselves from the virus challenged the very essence of their duty as healers.

    33 min

  5. 26/08/2020

    Unit on the Brink: E2 - Echoes of the Past

    COVID-19 was far from the world’s first go-around with a pandemic. In 2009, H1N1 claimed hundreds of thousands of lives worldwide. For nurses at the MICU who had cared for patients back then, COVID-19 at times was a haunting replay of the painfully familiar fight to treat patients struggling to breathe. As the first COVID patients came in, MICU staff faced ever-changing protocols and the unnerving realization that this virus was even more dangerous than anything they had faced before.

    35 min

  6. 02/09/2020

    Unit on the Brink: E3 - Isolation Protocol

    For the citizens of Salt Lake City, by the first weeks of March 2020, nerves were already shredded. COVID-19 positive cases were rising. The governor called for a state of emergency and the city began to shut down. They had spent weeks picking through barren shelves at the grocery stores trying to get their hands on basic necessities. And then, on March 18, the largest earthquake in centuries hit the city. For the medical professionals in our story facing all of this adversity too, they still had a job to do. One that was proving more and more difficult by the day as the severity of the illness in some patients only grew worse.

    34 min

  7. 16/09/2020

    Unit on the Brink: E4 - The Last Resort

    By April, the governor’s stay-at-home directive seemed to be working. New COVID-19 positive cases appeared to be leveling off. But the new rules aimed at keeping everyone safe had also led to tens of thousands of Utahns losing their jobs. The MICU staff anxiously watched TV news stories about large groups of unmasked, undistanced protestors demanding the state re-open for business. Meanwhile, as one extremely sick MICU patient with COVID-19 became eligible for what was “the last resort” technology offered, staff wondered what would happen if the public stopped observing the very measures put in place to keep them safe, and whether some of those very protestors would soon be needing their care.

    29 min

  8. 23/09/2020

    Unit on the Brink: E5 - Keepers of Hope

    An ambulance pulled up to University Hospital, carrying a man experiencing severe pains in his chest and shortness of breath. The 42-year-old veteran had felt fine a few days prior - a little headache and a sore throat - only to fall into a state of fever, chills, and hypoxia. He had been put on a ventilator but was not getting any better. If the medical professionals at the hospital couldn’t help his body get the oxygen it so desperately needed, he would soon suffocate. It was time to call in reinforcements and try some extreme measures to save his life. It was time to call in the specialists in the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit. Follow the journey of Rebecca Brim, the CVICU charge nurse helping oversee this man’s care, and understand a little of the intense emotional and psychological toll that caretakers face as they treat patients teetering on the grey line between life and death.

    37 min
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CLINICAL takes you on an immersive journey into the inner workings of a hospital, offering a rare glimpse into the heart of an institution that is both complex and essential to our well-being. Hosts Stephen Dark and Mitch Sears guide listeners through the hidden and often overlooked corners of the hospital, shining a light on the unsung heroes who perform critical, behind-the-scenes roles. Through engaging storytelling, they uncover the untold, compelling lives of these individuals whose remarkable efforts, sacrifices, and dedication bring a human touch to the medical professionals we rely on in times of illness. These intimate stories reveal the depth of compassion, resilience, and humanity in those who care for us when we need it most.

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