Health care providers are trying to adapt to serve patients who don't have the coronavirus but still need urgent in-person care.
pandemic, it’s not always an option for medical care. Chemotherapy can’t be administered via webcam. Dermatologists can’t screen for skin cancer from afar. And emergency surgery can’t wait for the crisis to subside.
Sometimes this means asking patients to stay in their cars until it’s time for their appointment. Other times it means staggering appointments, changing the number of health care providers involved in treating a patient, or making carefully weighed decisions regarding what care is absolutely necessary.
“The big issue now is just weighing out the risk of being around sick patients that may potentially have been exposed to the virus versus what is safe for the person to begin with,” Mansour said. “So that’s kind of just what we’re doing. We’re not trying to stop patients from being seen or stop people from going to the ER, just want to take additional precautions.”Not all non-COVID-19 medical care can wait until the public health crisis subsides.
“If a patient’s doing well on some therapy, we might delay an additional type of therapy that we would normally do because of COVID-19,” Mansour said.
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