MedPage Today July 13, 2020
— Waiting rooms are filling up again in my clinics. Is that a good thing?
It’s suddenly getting really crowded again.
Since early March, when the pandemic really took hold and started to overwhelm our health systems, we canceled or rescheduled most if not all of the regularly scheduled appointments, and for the most part our practice has been pretty empty.
As the practice site for 30 clinician educators, full-time faculty members seeing their own patients and supervising residents, and for the 130 internal medicine residents doing outpatient ambulatory block rotations and continuity clinic, we usually had about 250 to 300 patients a day come through our practice. But during the COVID-19 pandemic, in-person visits for anything other than this...