Gloria K. Aggrey is an infectious disease physician who blogs at Vexing Microbes. She can be reached on Twitter @gaggreymd.
One of the great responsibilities in doctoring is alleviating suffering. That hasn’t changed. But the novelty of COVID-19 makes us uncertain as we care for our patients. Anxious even. We feel helpless watching people get ravaged with SARS-CoV-2. We are all limited in our fund of knowledge. We know that we aren’t incompetent, but COVID-19 has made us feel impotent.
A hospitalist friend recently broke down in tears after pronouncing …
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