To those familiar with the city’s history there is poignant poetry in the fact the pandemic which has rocked the world for the last year emerged from Wuhan. More than 50 years ago in the midst of the cultural revolution, the city bore witness to another health crisis an analysis of which in addition to […]
Virtual Empathy
As I was listening to a seminar on racial disparities in colorectal cancer screening yesterday, the speaker brought up an excellent point about the importance of virtual empathy going forward in this new era of telemedicine. He stressed that we need to think of ways to integrate empathy into our virtual interactions with patients because […]
To Kiss the Banana Trunk: Using the Lessons of Ebola in the Fight Against COVID-19
In December of 2013, an 18-month-old boy fell ill in a small village in Guinea. Although it was not initially apparent, he had been infected—most likely from a bat reservoir—with Zaire ebolavirus. Within months, the outbreak had spread to the major cities of neighboring countries and in August of 2014, the WHO declared the West […]
