• Indian J Med Ethics · May 2020

    My first call on Covid duty.

    • Punishi Parekh.
    • Department of Paediatrics, Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400 012 INDIA.
    • Indian J Med Ethics. 2020 May 2; - (-): 1-2.

    AbstractThe Covid-19 pandemic has meant that all available health workers have been summoned to serve the community. Here, I describe my first experience as a resident doctor of shift duty in the Covid ICU of a large municipal hospital in Mumbai, with its accompanying fears and discomforts, all contributing to learning painful but valuable lessons.. Keywords: Covid-19, ICU, pandemic, public health system, learning.

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