by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 18, 2020 | COVID-19, COVID-19 Diaries
Courage is Moving Forward Despite Your Fear I watched the Jordan Peterson YouTube video below about fear and anxiety. In it, he says, “Everyone has the ultimate reason to be anxious– because we know we are going to die.” And, when facing real danger, sensible...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 17, 2020 | COVID-19
COVID-19 diaries – in graphic form. The good news is that the curve has, in fact, become flat. That’s better than the Himalayan climb we saw in March. Right now, discharges from the ICU occur at the same rate as admissions – so there isn’t any indication that the...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 17, 2020 | COVID-19, COVID-19 Diaries
The Long Slog of the Pulmonary Consult Service COVID-19 is disproportionately affecting men, maybe because they have more ACE2 receptors than women, I don’t know. All I know is the male physicians are taking a beating from COVID-19. So, we made the decision to put the...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 15, 2020 | COVID-19, COVID-19 Diaries
I’m starting to see rays of light pierce through the clouds like it does after a bad storm passes by. Maybe we have actually achieved the goal of “flattening of the curve,” which is what we hoped would be the reward for shutting down the entire world. The ICU...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 15, 2020 | COVID-19
Above: Our COVID-19 Diaries Front Line Doc shows us the converted hospital cafeteria, ready to serve seriously ill COVID-19 patients. Read the COVID-19 Interim Final Rule FAQs As part of the CMS Hospital Without Walls initiative, for the duration of the COVID-19 PHE,...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 14, 2020 | COVID-19
A recent paper out of China indicates that the COVID-19 virus could be found in air samples 13 feet from the patient source. Not surprisingly, air and surface samples showed greater contamination in the ICU than the general wards but the virus was widely distributed...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 13, 2020 | COVID-19, Dr. Marissa Carter
On March 1st, my friend and colleague, Marissa Carter, PhD emailed me a graph of her COVID-19 infection rate model. After seeing it, I put my mother in quarantine the following week. Her model turned out to be far more accurate than the Harvard model (or other models)...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 13, 2020 | COVID-19
Here’s a guest blog from a friend and colleague who practices Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine and is also a Critical Care physician. I believe that she should remain anonymous for now. However, I was inspired by the emails and texts she has sent me and thought you...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 10, 2020 | COVID-19, COVID-19 Diaries
Here’s a guest blog from a friend and colleague who practices Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine and is also a Critical Care physician. I believe that she should remain anonymous for now. However, I was inspired by the emails and texts she has sent me and thought you...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 10, 2020 | COVID-19
Earlier this week I wore an N95 mask all day in the Wound Clinic, and then spent the evening doing wound care on my own face. I have no right to whine – I only practice two days a week, so I am not doing this EVERY SINGLE DAY. However, the experience made me...
