Searching for Human Connectedness During COVID-19

Journal of General Internal Medicine - Tập 35 - Trang 3043-3044 - 2020
Margaret McNairy1,2, Brooke Bullington2, Kimberly Bloom-Feshbach1
1Section of Hospital Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, USA
2Center for Global Health, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, USA

Tóm tắt

The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally transformed doctor-patient communication, stripping away moments of connection that define the humanism of medicine. The barrier of isolation has impacted patients and patient care, and has also affected the experience of the physician. Though in-person connection is impossible to replicate digitally, technology has restored some sense of togetherness.