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Journeys User4December 9, 2020December 8, 2020Clinical Training Experience, My StoryCOVID-19, India, Maryland, PGY4, Radiation Oncology

Caring for Cancer Patients During a Pandemic

By Dr. Santanu Samanta

“Doc, which C is worse for me… cancer or coronavirus?” Many patients asked this question. The anxiety of a new cancer diagnosis, waiting to start treatment, and then suddenly news of a pandemic changed everything for all cancer patients. Bewildered, some patients would hesitate to come to the hospital while others would try to hide their viral symptoms to prevent interruption of treatment. COVID-19 has presented varying challenges to all health care professionals, and being a resident physician involved in caring for cancer patients has its own unique difficulties.

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Journeys User4November 4, 2020October 29, 2020Cross-cultural Experience, My Story, Words of WisdomCOVID-19, India, Missouri, Neurology, PGY4

Doctors with Borders

By Dr. Uttara Koul

The past eight months have been a summation of the five stages of grief:

- - - - Stage 1: Denial – there’s a viral outbreak? Hmm. It won’t reach us.
        
        Stage 2: Anger – why aren’t people taking the lockdown strictly? Why is everyone hoarding toilet paper?
        
        Stage 3: Bargaining – a vaccine will be released any day now, right?
        
        Stage 4: Depression – all social engagements are postponed indefinitely. So many people have lost their lives! This is heartbreaking!
        
        Stage 5: Acceptance – this is the new normal.

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Journeys User4August 25, 2020September 8, 2021Cross-cultural Experience, My StoryCOVID-19, Family Medicine, Ohio, PGY4, Preventative Medicine, Saudi Arabia

Engineering Medicine Inside Out

By Dr. Wail Yar

I grew up in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, thousands of miles away in the Middle East. I went to high school with a dream that I would become a petroleum engineer. I never thought that I would be a physician; I was scared from seeing blood, and I was afraid to touch a patient. When I graduated from high school, I applied to the best scholarship program in the country, and I got accepted to study petroleum engineering abroad. At the same time, I applied to King Abdulaziz University College of Medicine in Saudi Arabia, because it is one of the best schools in the country. I applied, not because I was forced to do so by my family, but I did it to prove that I could be a doctor, although at that time I didn’t want to be one.

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