Mondays are always the busiest day for the psychology team at Lviv Clinical Hospital of Emergency and Intensive Care in western Ukraine. Follow psychiatrist Dr. Oleh Berezyuk and his team around the hospital as they meet with new and existing patients across the rehabilitation, intensive care, surgery and internal medicine units.
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Le lundi est toujours la journée la plus occupée pour l’équipe de spécialistes en psychologie du Centre hospitalier de Lviv, dans l’ouest de l’Ukraine, où sont offerts des soins d’urgence et des soins intensifs. Suivez Stephanie Murphy alors qu’elle accompagne l’équipe que dirige le Dr Oleh Berezyuk, psychiatre, au sein des différents services de l’hôpital (réadaptation, soins intensifs, chirurgie et médecine interne).
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