I’m not sure what the day will bring. That is energizing and a challenge. That is true for all my days, but especially true now. Today, the first thing that I received were texts from several patients who were concerned…
When I wrote the post on staying home, my long-standing German receptionist, Sieglinde, asked why we are to keep away from other household members and pets. ” Why pets?”, she asked. Can our pets transmit corona virus and vice versa?…
1. Dr. Wallace gave a great summary of our meeting yesterday with the physicians and staff of Metropolitan Methodist Hospital. One additional point that I would add is the caution from Dr. Luis Cisneros, a well regarded infectious disease specialist.…
Today Dr. Thornton and I attended a medical department teleconference for Metropolitan Methodist Hospital to discuss what’s going on in that hospital system with Covid-19. It’s encouraging to hear how hard Methodist system is working to adapt quickly to respond…
The following is a summary from Journal Watch, a publication which provides summaries of important medical studies from AUTHORITATIVE medical journals around the world. The reason authoritative was in CAPS is that a lot of the articles that patients send…
So you have a respiratory infection and feel crummy. You decide to isolate at home. What do you do? These are the guidelines from UpToDate: Home care — Home management is appropriate for patients with mild infection who can be adequately…
I’ve written a number of notes today for worried individuals who are concerned that the caregivers for their loved ones will be pulled over by the police on their way to work and prevented from getting to their jobs. Home…
In this morning’s Wall Street Journal (which has a lot of good medical articles BTW), there was mention of the possibility of a lot of people being asymptomatic carriers of Covid-19. Dr. Anthony Fauci cautioned about taking our eyes of…
This is the equipment which includes mask, gloves, gown and eye shields that health professionals use to keep safe. The problem is, there is a shortage of it. We have gloves and masks, but are waiting on shipments of gowns…
Even before President Trump made his statements about hydroxychloroquine people have been asking for prescriptions. That and azithromycin which were used in some of the tiny studies that are widely circulated as supporting their use. Yesterday, the Texas State Board…
