Editor’s note: This day-in-the-life portrait is based on an interview with the doctor as she referred to her notes from the day, with careful attention to patient privacy. The reporter was not in the emergency department and did not witness the events described.
A 68-year-old man with chest pains.
Dr. Bianca Grecu Jacobs strides down a long hallway to the room he’s been taken to, one of 44 private single-patient rooms, along with two twin-bed trauma bays that make up the emergency department at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend…