Continue to press on | Triad pastor says COVID-19 recovery process is grueling, even 10 months after testing positive
High Point Pastor Rory Baker tested positive for COVID-19 in April of last year and spent two months in the hospital battling the virus before returning home. Author: Marissa Tansino (WFMY News2) Published: 9:21 PM EST January 13, 2021 Updated: 6:48 AM EST January 14, 2021
NORTH CAROLINA, USA We re learning more about what recovery life is like for those who have battled through COVID-19.
While doctors, nurses, and other hospital staff are working hard to give patients the help they need while they re in the hospital with COVID-19, that care doesn t stop once patients are discharged.
John Barham Ragland âJackâ Thomas, M.D. died on Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020, in Roanoke, Va., of Alzheimerâs disease.
Jack was born to Bonner Gibbs Thomas and Emily Grant Thomas in Erwin on Nov. 13, 1951, their third and last child. He graduated from the University of North Carolina with a major in Mathematics Phi Beta Kappa and graduated from medical school at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine (WFU), receiving the Vidinghoff Award in Family Medicine. He stayed at WFU for his residency in Family Medicine and was co-chief resident. In Winston-Salem, he began Salem Family Medicine (now Novant Salem Family Medicine) along with two friends from medical school and residency, John Roach, M.D. and Sherrill Braswell, M.D., and worked there for 35 years. He served Novant in several different administrative capacities, including medical director of Salem Family Medicine and chair of Novantâs computerized medical record committee, while maintaining his first love of