Editor’s Introduction - The road ahead (after) COVID-19
Editor’s Introduction - The road ahead (after) COVID-19
I write this article as a psychiatrist tasked with shining a light on how the pandemic has changed pediatric mental health. And I suspect in many ways, we will be seeing the effects for years to come. To say COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus, has changed healthcare would be an understatement.
Resuscitate the dying with all of the fierceness and strength and skill and technology that we are given, listen to the patients and their families, carefully treat the sick, try not to pass disease to the next patient or ourselves. Stay vigilant. Take good care of each other.
Throughout the pandemic, minor or routine medical events became complicated and even life threatening because patients fearing COVID-19 avoided seeking medical care. These conditions could have been entirely preventable if treated appropriately and earlier.
Roland came in the room. Unable to speak, right side all but hanging. Life was not going to stop because of C-19. But how to work through all the standard life upsets while coming to terms with the effects and dangers of a pandemic not seen since 1917? One thing I knew: my life had changed radically.
Hospital admissions for GI conditions constitute a heavy disease burden across SLC costing on average approximately $6 million each year.
SLC has higher rates of hospitalization for intestinal obstruction than the national average and this condition is more prevalent in women than men across SLC.
With the exception of enteritis and colitis, all conditions had higher incidences of hospitalization than national rates. By 2017, the rates of hospitalizations for appendicitis in SLC had dropped below national rates.
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NNYMR was founded to help build and contribute to the emerging medical and healthcare research infrastructure in Northern New York
The recent COVID-19 outbreak has highlighted, among other things, the importance of networks of care.
