Letters
Covid-19: “Just stay at home”
Long covid: doctors must assess and investigate patients properly
BMJ 2020; 371 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m4583 (Published 02 December 2020) Cite this as: BMJ 2020;371:m4583
- Amali U Lokugamage, consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist and honorary associate professor12,
- Mary-Ann Bowen, general practitioner3,
- Jennifer Blair, consultant anaesthetist4
- 1Whittington Health NHS Trust, London, UK
- 2UCL Medical School, London, UK
- 3Church Street Surgery, Kidderminster, UK
- 4Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust, Sutton, UK
- a.lokugamage{at}ucl.ac.uk
Jensen’s article provides a poignant patient perspective and reflects well the experiences of many patients that were very sick at the peak of the first wave of covid-19 but were denied proper medical assessment and told to “stay at home.”1 Of course it is important to “show you care” and empathise with the patient. But, as part of an online group …
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