Post Author: Lala Tanmoy Das

Lala Tanmoy Das is a medical student.

Lala Tanmoy Das is a medical student.

What about the mental health of clinical trial participants? 

Conditions
June 13, 2020

“Why is my disease less important than COVID?” Donna asked me toward the end of our phone call.

Two years ago, after celebrating her 65th birthday, she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia—an aggressive type of blood cancer—which turned out to be refractory to conventional chemotherapy. After spending hundreds of hours with doctors and social workers, she was scheduled to enroll in a clinical trial in May 2020. But COVID-19 postponed it.

She is …

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Cause unknown: the burden of diagnosis

Conditions
May 22, 2020

Around three weeks ago, my 72-year-old patient, Mr. J., woke up feeling severely short of breath. He felt unusually tired, noticed a dry cough, and felt achy in his arms and legs. Suspicious of COVID-19, he and his wife called an ambulance and went to the nearest New York City emergency room.

At first, the doctors too thought it was COVID-19. However, a chest X-ray, CT scan, and a series of …

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