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Taimur Safder is a cardiology fellow. 

It’s time to end draconian hospital visitation policies during COVID-19

Taimur Safder, MD, MPH
Physician
February 10, 2021

We were only a few miles away from the hospital, but we might as well have been in another galaxy. Normally I wouldn’t have minded that feeling since I’ve spent most of my adult life in hospitals going through the different larval stages a medical trainee must on their way to their final form of an attending physician. But this current feeling of disconnect from the local hospital was …

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It’s time to end draconian hospital visitation policies during COVID-19

What happens when the best medicine has to offer can’t be offered to everyone?

Taimur Safder, MD, MPH
Physician
August 10, 2015

“We have an admission.”

The dreaded four words for most interns on a day you are swamped with discharges while trying to get your post rounds orders in.

“Hypertensive emergency and possible osteomyelitis of the foot,” my senior informed me with a few other details as we made our way to the emergency department. Mr. Rodriguez was a very pleasant middle-aged gentleman, with graying hair and a goatee.  I introduced myself, explained …

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What happens when the best medicine has to offer can’t be offered to everyone?

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