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The Community of Courage Facing COVID-19
Why don’t doctors panic in a pandemic? The answer has implications for everyone.
Two weeks ago doctors were focused on keeping everyone calm as we tried to understand COVID-19. Now that we have the public moving to safety at home, the doctors are gearing up for the real work in this rapidly evolving pandemic.
This is the big one.
For decades doctors have known that a pandemic would come one day. A real one, not just a scare. One that would break through containment and spread exponentially. It’s frightening to see it really happening.
What are your doctors doing?
We are gearing up and we are feeling the pressure. Do you know what doctors do under pressure? We focus on what we know and what we can do in that moment. Right now we are preparing for a level of infection that, if all of us do not make changes such as staying at home, will likely overwhelm our clinics and hospitals.
Doctors face a crisis by working together in a community of courage, with each other and our amazing teams. We will face this together, and we hope you will join us in this mission.
