Please Don’t Shoot the COVID-19 Messenger

Please Don’t Shoot the COVID-19 Messenger

In the wake of Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s, COVID-19 cases are soaring most places. Texas is not unique (see graph above). In October and early November things were looking a little better and now they are bad again. I work in a hospital-based outpatient...
COVID-19 Vaccination Rollout in Texas

COVID-19 Vaccination Rollout in Texas

My clinic is starting this morning. That means I have to get my temperature taken, don my protective equipment and attempt to deliver care to patients whose expressions I can’t see and who can’t understand what I am saying through a mask. I also need extra time to...