A Doctor’s Personal Experience with Coronavirus: Diagnosis, Hospitalization, and Giving Back

Jefferson Emergency Medicine physician Dr. Anna Marie Chang became sick with the coronavirus in mid-March 2020. In this episode, she tells the story of her symptoms worsening, the isolation of the hospital room as a patient, and using her experience to rally efforts toward convalescent plasma donation.

 

Check out TheHealthNexus.org for more content on the coronavirus, like a patient's guide to telemedicine during the pandemic and information about plasma donations from coronavirus survivors at the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Blood Donor Center.

Also, read the commentary from Dr. Chang about her experience.

 

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