What are Medical Offices Doing to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19?

Written by: Ellie Casaubon Many hospitals are having to use telemedicine due to this outbreak. They are calling patients so that they can stay healthy if a patient with COVID-19 comes in not knowing they have the disease. Offices around the globe have been sending staff home if they have any symptoms. While this does give the doctors a chance to work from home, procedures that include a doctor to inject or remove something won’t be able to happen. Some benefits of having to use telemedicine are that the doctors can spend time at home with their family’s. Some doctors work the hours of 7:30 am-5:30 pm and don’t get to spend time with their kids and/or significant others. Also, if they are the only parent, they don’t have to spend money on daycare or babysitters, and they can have their kid in another room while they are answering calls. The downsides of this are, if the doctors had to work from home and their office wasn’t open, the people that welcome you at the front desk, wouldn’t have a job. The doctors would just pick up the phone and the patient wouldn’t have to go through the admissions process, so the administrators would be out of a job.  Something else to take into consideration is, if the doctors are working from home and they have kids, their kids may come in and interrupt the call they are on. Knowing that you can make an informed decision saying whether or not you think that telemedicine is an efficient and acceptable way of dealing with this outbreak. Our next volume will be published on March 27, 2020, and will be focusing on the political intake on COVID-19.

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