Nicholas Pettit is an emergency physician.

The current COVID-19 testing climate is unnecessarily complicated

Physician
August 1, 2020

It’s 7 a.m. on a Monday morning, and my wife and I had canceled our family vacation to the beaches of Cape San Blas, Florida, where we had planned on spending our week off, relaxing on an isolated beach. My daughter wakes up at 7:15 a.m. on that Monday, and my wife immediately after nursing her thinks, “she feels warm.” Mom thermometer is almost always accurate, and with two different …

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The current COVID-19 testing climate is unnecessarily complicated

Life on the frontlines and surviving the emergency department (with the help of social media)

Conditions
March 24, 2020

In the midst of a global pandemic, COVID-19 has forced all involved with patient care to be innovative and adaptive. Deployed as an emergency department (ED) physician, on the frontlines of medicine, my team and I work tirelessly to take care of and research the COVID-19 patient. I have seen COVID-19, and I have seen the fear instilled in the eyes of my patients that receive this diagnosis, akin to …

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Life on the frontlines and surviving the emergency department (with the help of social media)