I do not know very much about the military. I do know that it is a favorite analogy of many, including my profession. We can all imagine the doctor issuing commands from the foot of a dying patient’s bed. Or a surgeon barking orders in the operating room as a patient bleeds on the table.… Continue reading I am not a soldier.
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The True Cost of COVID-19
My primary job as a physician is to preserve life. It is not a war with death. There are no weapons or enemies or battlegrounds. My job is a negotiation with death. We sit together, death, the patient, and I, discussing, mediating, talking, crying. I take this part of my job seriously and I am… Continue reading The True Cost of COVID-19
The Five Stages of my Personal Pandemic
Two weeks ago, I was talking all about how COVID-19 was just a bad version of the flu. We would all get it eventually, it would be fine, people should keep living their lives. I was wrong. I was in denial. Then, I moved on to anger. I was angry that my family decided to… Continue reading The Five Stages of my Personal Pandemic
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