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COVID-19: Humility in Medicine

15 April, 2020 by GAggreyMD 1 Comment

COVID-19

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 […]

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COVID-19: Is Hydroxychloroquine Truly the Answer?

24 March, 2020 by GAggreyMD Leave a Comment

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 […]

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