Pineapple Street Studios Launches 'Doctor's Log' Podcast On Emergency Rooms In The Pandemic

From The ER

ENTERCOM's PINEAPPLE STREET STUDIOS and journalism collective THE METEOR have launched a limited-run podcast about emergency rooms during the COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS pandemic. "DOCTOR'S LOG" is hosted by Dr. ESTHER CHOO, Associate Professor at OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCES UNIVERSITY and an emergency room physician in PORTLAND and debuted WEDNESDAY (4/1). New episodes will be posted twice weekly starting next week.

"There is a gap between what we're experiencing and worrying about on the healthcare delivery side and what the general public sees,” said Dr. CHOO. “My experience is just one piece of the global healthcare response to the pandemic, but hopefully with this podcast, I can represent the voices of my colleagues, honor their work, and share their struggles as the entire country grapples with an unprecedented threat."

“Dr. CHOO is a true American hero, one of the bravest and most important voices and figures at the heart of the battle against coronavirus,” said PINEAPPLE STREET STUDIOS Co-Founders JENNA WEISS-BERMAN and MAX LINSKY in a press release. “Her dispatches from the ER will shed light on the reality of what hospitals and healthcare workers are facing in this unprecedented crisis, offering access and a view that is not being covered on television and other news outlets.”

“ESTHER was warning that our country was unprepared for a pandemic years ago, before people were listening,” said THE METEOR Co-Founder CINDI LEIVE. “She’ll bring that highly informed perspective to these dispatches—plus the very human reality of what it’s like to be a physician coping right now. ‘DOCTOR'S LOG’ takes its name from Captain Kirk’s ‘Captain’s Log’ on STAR TREK, because ESTHER and her peers are literally going where no person has gone before.”

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