KevinMD May 31, 2020
They are physicians, mentors, partners, mothers, sisters, friends, colleagues – but most evidently, at the moment, they are heroes. I (virtually) sat down with five women physicians, at all points in their medical careers, who are working in several of the largest emergency departments in Texas, to talk about their experiences with the COVID-19 pandemic.
One of the themes that I heard from each of these physicians was that the inevitable weakening of the patient connection is one of the hardest things about practicing during this pandemic. Due to the six-foot rule and the safety precautions now in place, the doctors take the patients’ history standing at the foot of the bed, do as little physical exam maneuvers as clinically...
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