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Medical Professionals Urge Public to Go to the Doctor for Appointments
As the pandemic continues, local hospitals say they are seeing more Northlanders delay treatment for other ailments due to fears related to COVID.
March 2, 2021
NORTHLAND – As the pandemic continues, local hospitals say they are seeing more Northlanders delay treatment for other ailments due to fears related to COVID.
Medical professionals from both St. Luke’s and Essentia say that their offices are among the safest places you can go and while delaying an annual exam might not seem like a bad thing right now, not going to the doctor could only lead to worse outcomes for the patient.
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Twin Ports doctors are concerned about a trend they re seeing with putting off medical care. The thing that I ve been noticing is that the patients we ve been seeing in our emergency department lately are in general sicker than they used to be, Dr. Andrea Boehland, an Essentia emergency medicine physician, said. It seems that we in the emergency department are seeing patients later in their disease course than we used to.
The two major providers,
St. Luke s, had a joint news conference Tuesday to let people know that hospitals and clinics are safe. They want patients to come in if they have health concerns or for regular checkups.