It doesn’t take long in the practice of medicine, indeed in the training for the practice of medicine, to learn humility. To understand our limits in our understanding of a disease process, in our abilities to heal patients, and in our own importance in the grand scheme of things. Yet as physicians and as experts […]
COVID-19: Is Hydroxychloroquine Truly the Answer?
As the COVID-19 pandemic rages in our various cities, it is important to remember that as of today there are no proven effective therapies. Still it is very difficult to watch people die despite your care. With about a thousand lives already lost to SARS-CoV-2 in the United States, everybody is scrambling to find therapeutics […]
Living in Two Different Worlds in the Era of COVID-19
March 1 2020 I’ve been back from my Thailand/Cambodia holiday two weeks now. Opened up my work email to find a number of emails related to my hospital’s preparedness for the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. Reassuring. Jumped right back into a busy clinical service. Checked my temperature daily and avoided the gym (more so […]
Travelling In The Time of Novel Coronavirus
January 1 2020 After all the well wishes and reflections with family and friends upon the arrival of a new year full of hope, a Leap Year at that, I plant my pepper seeds, determined to get a headstart in my garden this year and settle in for travel planning. I’m off from work for […]
When Pneumonia Kills Healthy Adults
Christmas Eve this year brought news of ESPN reporter, Ed Aschoff, dying that day, also his 34th birthday, after being treated for pneumonia. I did not know of him, but soon I was reading his Twitter profile. Earlier in the month he had shared the following: It’s hauntingly sad to read that now. I can […]
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