There’s never a good time to be sick, but with so much medical attention focused on COVID-19, this is a particularly stressful time to need medical attention for anything else.
Laila Al-Marayati, MD, says via email. “It also helps to reassure patients who are worried about rescheduling appointments for more than 8 weeks without some contact with their provider."
She says her practice is offering phone or video appointments to patients who were scheduled for annual visits “to establish care, review their concerns and medical history,” and they’re bringing people in only when absolutely necessary. Other offices, she says, are canceling routine annual well-woman visits outright and scheduling them 3 months or more from now.
Appointments for pregnant women are being spaced out to reduce the risk of passing on infections, and women must come alone to appointments and ultrasounds, says Marc Incerpi, MD, chief of the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Keck. “While we know that coming to appointments without a loved one or significant other for pregnant patients can be difficult, we are doing so only to protect our patients, staff and community,” he wrote in a Thursday email.
At New York City’s Hospital for Special Surgery, a leading orthopedic hospital, nonessential care has been canceled, though the hospital will “continue to provide essential onsite care, and are rapidly broadening virtual care , and will be increasing the availability of injury care at all locations,” according to an emailed statement.
David Quinn, MD, medical director of the University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been helping his patients make such difficult decisions over the last few weeks. With each, he discusses their chance of getting a serious COVID-19 infection -- a risk that is known to increase with age and other medical conditions such as heart disease -- vs. the possible danger of stopping treatment early.
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