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Keeping up with Routine Care and Preventive Services Safely During COVID-19
Posted on March 17, 2021 by ODPHP
At ODPHP, we encourage patients to use MyHealthfinder to learn about the preventive services they need to stay healthy. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected almost every part of our lives and health care is no exception. In the past year, many people may have put off routine health care and preventive services like screenings and vaccines because they’re worried about getting COVID-19. But doctors warn that this could cause problems in the future.
“This is a problem since a lot of conditions are harder to treat when they’re caught later on,” says Alex Krist, MD, MPH, a primary care physician at Fairfax Family Practice in Virginia. “Delaying some services for a couple months made sense early in the pandemic. But now delays are getting longer, which is a concern,” he says.
Doctors’ see-through surgical masks impact relationship with patient more than realized, study says
Updated Mar 11, 2021;
Posted Mar 11, 2021
Dr. Ian Kratzke models the traditional and clear face masks that were tested in a new study.
(Photo courtesy of Dr. Muneera Kapadia/JAMA Network)TNS
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Scientists who outfitted surgeons with clear masks found that patients gave them higher marks for empathy and explaining things clearly compared with doctors who wore typical surgical masks.
The findings, published Thursday in the journal JAMA Surgery, highlight an unfortunate side effect of universal mask-wearing in medicine and one possible way to help overcome it.
More than 55,000 Californians have died of COVID-19 in the last year. Their families have struggled to memorialize them as funerals and other gatherings were restricted. The sheer weight of so many lives lost moved Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer to tears multiple times during news briefings.
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Even those of us lucky enough to keep our jobs and our health have paid a price. We saved lives by complying with California’s strict stay-at-home orders and mask mandates. But we lost a sense of community and felt isolated and alone.
The trade-off almost became too much for Leslie Grossman, 49, an actress and third-generation Angeleno.