She s the face of NC s fight against COVID-19. Meet Dr. Mandy Cohen, Tar Heel of the Year
Dec. 23
The News & Observer recognizes North Carolina residents who have made significant contributions in the last year and beyond. These people have made a difference in our region, state and elsewhere. Here are our stories.
Once, many years ago, a promising third-year medical resident did not know how to treat one of her patients. They were both young women, the patient and the resident, when their lives intersected at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
For weeks, the patient had been losing weight and also her hair, troubling symptoms for someone in her early 20s. The resident, training to become a doctor of internal medicine, ordered test after test that revealed no answers. One day a technician approached the resident with the patient s vitals, and some advice: Maybe you should ask the patient if she d been eating regularly.