For MedPage Today s After the Pandemic series, we asked our editorial board members to discuss what significant and lasting effects the COVID-19 pandemic will have on medicine and the delivery of healthcare.
Here, we interview Bernadette Melnyk, PhD, RN, vice president for Health Promotion, university chief wellness officer, and professor and dean of the College of Nursing at The Ohio State University (OSU) in Columbus.
This interview has been lightly edited for clarity and brevity.
The media has constantly referred to healthcare professionals as heroes throughout the pandemic. As dean of the College of Nursing at OSU, do you worry that this creates an expectation that clinicians put everyone else first?
For MedPage Today s After the Pandemic series, we asked our editorial board members to discuss what significant and lasting effects the COVID-19 pandemic will have on medicine and the delivery of healthcare.
Here, we interview Yoni Freedhoff, MD, founder and medical director of the Bariatric Medical Institute in Ottawa, Canada.
Can you share an anecdote about a patient you saw in your practice and how the pandemic influenced their situation? What was the outcome?
Freedhoff: Sharing very specific anecdotes isn t HIPAA friendly, but what I can easily state is that for a very large percentage of my patients and their families, the pandemic has changed their dietary patterns, and for the most part, for the worse.
s After the Pandemic series, we asked our editorial board
members to discuss what significant and lasting effects the COVID-19 pandemic will have on medicine and the delivery of healthcare.
Here, we interview Bob Doherty, Senior Vice President of Governmental Affairs and Public Policy for the American College of Physicians (ACP).
How will internal medicine change as a result of the pandemic?
Doherty: One result is that people have discovered how important internal medicine is in our healthcare system. The value that internal medicine physicians bring to healthcare was greatly illustrated during the pandemic, not only in the sense that internal medicine physicians were on the front lines treating COVID-19 patients whether as primary care physicians or infectious disease specialists [but] they were leading the evidence-based response to COVID-19. And the simple fact was that the most trusted spokespersons on COVID-19 have been internal medicine physicians such as Dr. [A