As the COVID-19 pandemic puts an unprecedented strain on the healthcare system across the country, some physicians are adapting to new ways to protect their patients and themselves.
Early cases of COVID-19 are believed to be linked to a live-animal market in Wuhan, China.
“I can wear a gown and gloves and a mask and take my own stethoscope and my newborn baby scale and have all my equipment with me and expose them to much less risk than I would bringing the newborn into my office,” Beth told ABC News. Dr. James Gill speaks with a patient via teleheath video app as medical scribe Karli Taneyhill records notes during a virtual visit at the Family Medicine at Greenhill practice in Wilmington, Del., April 1, 2020.The pandemic has put both a practical and a financial strain on independent medical practitioners, many of whom are simultaneously scrambling to adjust to new ways of seeing patients while struggling to keep their businesses afloat.
"We approach a car with the patient in it like a police officer would approach someone they arrest," Martindale said."Normally, we want them comfortable right away. We want them at ease. Now, my first line is a wall to make sure you're safe first and then we'll deal with the patient." Dr. Thomas Cornwell, on the other hand, a Chicago-based family physician and founder of Northwestern Medicine HomeCare Physicians, normally does about 40 house calls a month, but he told ABC News that he’s cutting back amid the outbreak and expanding his use of telemedicine.
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