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'I just stayed there with her': Nurse holds hand of COVID-19 patient so she wouldn't have to die alone
Registered Nurse Mike Gatlin works in the ICU at Prisma Health's Greenville Memorial Hospital
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Mike Gatlin is a Registered Nurse for Prisma Health Upstate in the ICU at Greenville Memorial Hospital.
Another nurse snapped the photo in the spring when a patient, a woman in her 80s with pre-existing conditions, was succumbing to the virus. Her family had just withdrawn care and had come to say goodbye.
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Gatlin became a nurse after serving in the U.S. Air Force in Iraq.
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