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Category: May 2020

It goes without saying that the pandemic has impacted all of us, placing some of us on the front lines, halting our practices, adjusting our home lives, and more. For this month’s edition, we asked our contributors to write about how they were coping with the current crisis, both professionally and personally.

April 16: NYC Letters from the ICU

By Andrew D. Thomas, MD April 16, 2020 Friends, Once again thank you for all your support. Life here has mostly been reduced to the ½ block walk from Bard Hall to the hospital and back each day. It’s a bit like a third year clerkships or being on an Outward Bound trip to remote […]

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Pandemics Make for Most Confining Chains: Part 2

By Thomas G. Stackhouse, MD April 19, 2020 Sometimes it seems each day is like the rest.Arise, prepare the pot and boil the brew.Set out the mugs, select the cream and wait.A cup of joe will start the day anew. A time to read, review the current stateOf town and friends, good health we […]

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Pandemics Make for Most Confining Chains: Part 3

By Thomas G. Stackhouse, MD April 21, 2020 There are some basic rules to know these days.Don’t touch your face or try to hug a friend.Please keep your selves six feet apart always.Advice to share, prevent a most sad end. Restrictions such as these are tough science.Avoid my close associates and kin?Shut down my […]

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April 21: NYC Letters from the ICU

By Andrew D. Thomas, MD April 21, 2020 Friends, Thank you for your generous words of support and encouragement as well as all the yummy food, no matter what happens it is always good to feel well fed and loved. Angela and the children are as well as can be expected, thanks to so many […]

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April 24: NYC Letters from the ICU

By Andrew D. Thomas, MD April 24, 2020 Friends, Once again, all my gratitude. Your friendship and support mean everything. On the plus side, the number of intubations has dropped precipitously, the ER is no longer a madhouse, the wave that has crashed is receding at last. The wreckage it has left is incalculable. Today the family of a patient […]

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April 26: Envy, Relief, Thankfulness

By Shalimar Abdullah, MBBS Today is 26th April 2020. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. University Hospital (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia). It has been 6 weeks since we first became worried about the COVID pandemic. I was scheduled to attend the Asia Pacific Hand meeting (APFSSH) in Melbourne, Australia on March 10th. But 6 days before my flight my […]

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April 27: Embracing Telemedicine

By John M. Rayhack, MD Today is 4-27-20. I am in private practice in Tampa, Florida. I have been in a wrist and hand surgical practice for 36 years – academic for 7 years, solo for 29 years. It has been five weeks since my last day of elective surgery on March 19th. Accepting the […]

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April 27: The New Normal

By Amy Woznick, MD, FACS Today is Monday April 27, 2020. It has been over 6 weeks since the Governor of Michigan issued all schools to close, and within a week everything else was shut down. Our level one trauma center canceled all non-emergent surgeries. Office appointments were cleared. I assumed this was a temporary […]

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April 30: NYC Letters from the ICU

By Andrew D. Thomas, MD April 30, 2020 Friends, After a string of night shifts, deliverance can arrive in any number of forms, this evening it took the shape of a chicken pot pie. Thank you, Serena! After annihilating the pie, most of an associated chocolate cake outstripped even my ambition and so to the hospital […]

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May 1: Imagine the “New Normal” in Hand Surgery

By Yuichi Yoshii, MD Today is May 1st, 2020. I am working at Tokyo Medical University Ibaraki Medical Center, which is located in a rural town of Ibaraki prefecture (east central) in Japan. I am working as a physician in charge of trauma cases in the orthopedics department and as a hand surgeon. In the […]

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