Nida Zakiullah is a family physician.

From advocate to adversary: How COVID-19 has changed the doctor-patient relationship

Physician
September 1, 2021

Ask any physician how they are doing today, and you’ll probably hear some version of frustrated, tired, and sad. It’s not the lump-in-your-throat type sadness. It’s that my-mind-and-soul-are-tired sadness. The feeling you have when all you can see is the conflict and the angst that seems to fill the world right now. The feeling that the world is burning and we are powerless to stop it.

I am a physician who …

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From advocate to adversary: How COVID-19 has changed the doctor-patient relationship

The virus takes and it takes. Physicians give and they give.

Conditions
July 26, 2020

A lifetime ago, when we first heard of a novel virus making the rounds in China, I was added to several physician groups on Facebook. The discussion surrounding the virus was academic; the distance made it easy to be objective, speculation on how severe it was, and how widely it would spread was casual and detached. Terrible what was happening in China. Those lockdown measures were so draconian. If only …

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The virus takes and it takes. Physicians give and they give.