Doctors never vow to risk their lives. Why do they still do it anyway?
CNNEditor’s Note: Trisha Pasricha, M.D., is a research fellow in gastroenterology at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Amid a global pandemic, doctors far and wide are being called to the field to embrace roles they may feel completely inept in, oftentimes without adequate protection. And decades before the first flu vaccine, doctors continued their work during the 1918 flu pandemic that infected 500 million people around the world. In the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, I find myself wondering, “Did I study these recurrent judgment days of yore and believe that I would be immune?” Like my father, I decided to specialize in gastroenterology and dedicate my career to non-fatal motility disorders — bothersome diseases of the gut that almost never lead to death. Join us on Twitter and Facebook In 50 years, medical students may be astonished to discover how doctors faced the coronavirus without knowing the basics of its virology that they may readily have at their fingertips, just as I wondered at how doctors before me combated HIV.
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