Dr. Yogangi Malhotra
3:40:16
Thank you so much for, letting me speak.
3:40:20
I'm in my car because, anyways, it doesn't matter.
3:40:23
I'm not gonna take that for my 2 minutes.
3:40:26
I'm here I'm a neonatologist at, at Jacobi Medical Center.
3:40:31
I've been here for 7 years, and I truly believe in the mission.
3:40:36
This is where I found my wings.
3:40:38
I came from Yale Monty and came to Jacobi, and I was truly happy to find my home at Jacobi.
3:40:44
I've taken pride for the longest time in mentoring the next generation and believing in being that living example of showing what the best job in the world looks like.
3:40:54
I've been caught many times saying that I had the best job in the world because I absolutely love what I do.
3:41:00
And I work with most amazing colleagues who I believe are my friends.
3:41:06
But over the last couple of years, I've seen many of these friends leave, and I have seen the light and the spark leave the eyes of many of my dear friends who are still continuing to work despite all the circumstances everywhere they are pulled in every direction.
3:41:24
I implore all of you on behalf of my part time colleagues who make themselves available 247 without payment because they are covering the only level 2 pediatric trauma center.
3:41:34
My psychiatrist friend who I try to stop in the hallway, and she's always running because she is trying to take care of the inpatient site unit staffed by 4 physicians instead of the 12 that are supposed to be there.
3:41:48
They're trying to recruit and cannot recruit, and they are trying to retain but cannot retain.
3:41:53
So they are there.
3:41:55
Or, you know, or trying to care for 30 patients in a day in a psychiatric ED, which is very, very scary to think about for me.
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Or my very pregnant friend who is now just finishing covering her long week long neonatal ICU shift and now has to come back at night to
