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Omicron will end the pandemic, but our divisive pandemic mentalities will be harder to vanquish

January 28, 2022 cconsilv 1 Comment

Omicron. It is really changing everything about the not-so-roaring 20’s COVID experience. With this new variant, we now live in…

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Posted in: coronavirus, COVID-19, Uncategorized Filed under: COVID 19, mentality, Omicron, pandemic, vaccine

If you are an unvaccinated adult and get COVID now, no one in health care has any sympathy for you

July 28, 2021 cconsilv 26 Comments

I have heard more than one person in the hospital comment that maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if people…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: COVID 19, health care worker, vaccine

The SARS-CoV-2 vaccine might allow health care workers to finally let go of their long buried silent pandemic rage

December 21, 2020 cconsilv 103 Comments

The other day, I received my vaccine against COVID-19 – a novel mRNA vaccine that will without hyperbole likely someday…

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Posted in: COVID-19, Uncategorized, Vaccines Filed under: COVID, healthcare workers, vaccine

Black Lives Matter: To Improve the Health of our Nation We Need More Black Doctors

August 29, 2020 cconsilv 3 Comments

So let’s get one thing out of the way: I am no expert on anything related to the African American…

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Posted in: affirmative action, black doctors, black lives matter, structural racism, Uncategorized Filed under: affirmative action, black doctors, black lives matter, medical school

A huge risk of the COVID-19 pandemic for which there is no personal protective equipment- and how we can prepare for it

March 27, 2020 cconsilv 2 Comments

I want so badly to write something hopeful. I wish I had some inspiring words that could make us feel…

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Posted in: COVID-19, social connectedness, Uncategorized Filed under: COVID19, pandemic, social connectedness

COVID-19 -If you are healthy- you might soon go stir crazy, but your boredom can be a heroic act.

March 14, 2020 cconsilv 1 Comment

So yesterday I went to an ICU meeting about the impending COVID-19 explosion sure to hit the hospitals en force…

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Posted in: COVID-19, Uncategorized Filed under: COVID 19 pandemic, social distancing

You are probably going to get the coronavirus…and need to mentally prepare for dealing with something far worse.

February 29, 2020 cconsilv 9 Comments

So the first thing to understand is that the novel COVID-19 coronavirus is not the zombie apocalypse. The fate of…

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Posted in: coronavirus, pandemic, Uncategorized Filed under: coronavirus, COVID 19, pandemic

Rethinking the Concept of the Diagnosis

February 28, 2019 cconsilv

It was my first day of my first rotation of my third year of medical school. I was starting a…

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Posted in: complementary and alternative medicine, medical school, Uncategorized Filed under: diagnosis

What’s it like to withdraw on patients in the ICU…and how we deal with it.

October 17, 2018 cconsilv 3 Comments

Sometimes in an ICU, a patient transforms in front of your eyes from a human being undergoing aggressive treatment with…

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Posted in: comfort care, compassion fatigue, critical care medicine, Uncategorized Filed under: comfort care, compassion fatigue, humor in medicine, ICU

How to be a Doctor in the Internet Age

May 3, 2018 cconsilv

One late night while I was working in the cardiothoracic ICU, a nurse called me to let me know the…

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Posted in: complementary and alternative medicine, intensive care medicine, internet, Uncategorized

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