I am leading a team of Pathologists joining Covid care at #NYUPathology

Families of Covid19 pts are not allowed in hospitals now

A team of NYU Pathologists will now be talking daily with families of Covid patients and informing them about their clinical status

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Covid care doctors & nurses are stretched & need our help

We will do daily chart review & join their daily patient rounds to learn about each patient.

We are each assigned a floor/ward & will speak to patient’s families daily; freeing up time for Docs & Nurses on floors

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After talking with the families we will be entering a note in the EMR for the pt; hence also communicating family concerns back to the medical teams & the patients.

We will also be available for patients’ families to call with questions about their loved ones.

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This isn’t an “easy” job; but we are Doctors 1st and Pathologists 2nd.

Our Internal Medicine colleagues have done an wonderful job organizing this NYU Family Connect program and am looking very forward to getting involved.

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I wanted to share this with Pathologists on Twitter; as an example of how Pathologists are getting involved directly with Covid patients!

#pathtwitter #medtwitter #pathology #essentialworker #coronavirus #covid19

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Also forgot to mention that we will also be mentoring and guiding medical students at these tasks as well.

Also of note that Radiologists and Dermatologists are also joining this new service!