((PKG)) TREATING COVID-19
((TRT: 04:34))
((Banner: A Doctor’s Challenge))
((Reporter/Camera/Producer: Jeff Swicord))
((Map: Washington, DC))
((Main characters: 1 male))
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Dr. Amey Kulkarni, Cardiologist, Kaiser Permanente))
I first actually got interested in medicine when I was about
seven years old. I had typhoid fever which is really
unusual. I was very sick and I was in the hospital for
eighteen days. After that I felt pulled towards medicine. You
know there is something about the chance to take care of
people when they’re at their most vulnerable that really
spoke to me, that sort of always stuck.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Dr. Amey Kulkarni, Cardiologist, Kaiser Permanente))
I don’t think that anyone thought in our lifetimes we would
see anything like coronavirus.
((All Photos Courtesy: AP))
((Dr. Amey Kulkarni, Cardiologist, Kaiser Permanente))
Life on the COVID wards is both rewarding and
tense. There is an understanding of what this disease is and
what it can do.
((1st Photo Courtesy: AP))
((2nd and 3rd Photos Courtesy: Reuters))
((Dr. Amey Kulkarni, Cardiologist, Kaiser Permanente))
And so, you know the way that we pay attention to donning
and doffing the personal protective equipment, the way that
we are attentive to how frequently nurses, therapists, people
who do tests, physicians, go into the rooms, we are very
thoughtful about those features.
((All Photos Courtesy: AP))
((Dr. Amey Kulkarni, Cardiologist, Kaiser Permanente))
People who are sick and very uncomfortable have the
chance to get better. And people do get better. I think that
that’s an important thing to remember about coronavirus is
that it is a disease that lots of people can recover from. And
I think the chance to be a part of that I think is really
rewarding.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((NATS: Dr. Amey Kulkarni))
Can I ask you to check your pulse just like this? Put your
fingers on your wrist.
((Dr. Amey Kulkarni, Cardiologist, Kaiser Permanente))
Everyone’s life has changed as a result of coronavirus and
our lives as physicians is no different in that way. And so,
switching from an in-office based practice to a virtual
practice, we were able to do that part relatively quickly.
And now I worry that my heart patients are scared to seek
care because they are worried about getting coronavirus in
the hospital. And I worry about the patients with coronavirus
that they are going to have some devastating
complication. And so, you worry in both directions which I
think is a new feeling for all of us.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Dr. Amey Kulkarni, Cardiologist, Kaiser Permanente))
I think like everybody, my family has ups and downs with the
crisis. We have a lot of home activities that we plan as a
family to sort of remind each other that this is a moment to
pause and enjoy each other. My wife is the champion of
that.
((NATS: Dr. Amey Kulkarni))
Ready? One, two, three. Nice.
((Dr. Amey Kulkarni, Cardiologist, Kaiser Permanente))
Many of us worry about being a vector for our families. I
think that that is something that’s on all of our
minds. Everyone is a little bit more anxious than they were
three months ago and a little bit more stressed. My wife and
kids, if something happened to them, it would be
devastating. My greatest fear is that I am going to give it to
my parents. They are, you know, in that higher risk
category. And we’re cognizant of the risks of being a
healthcare worker.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((All Photos Courtesy: Reuters))
((Dr. Amey Kulkarni, Cardiologist, Kaiser Permanente))
Medical knowledge has undertaken this grand revolution in
the last two months because of the pandemic. I think that a
wider swath of medical professionals have learned how to
quickly interpret data and understand what is good data and
bad data in a way that we have never been able to do
before. It helped us move faster through the science of
coronavirus. I think that we are better prepared now than we
were two months ago. We will be better prepared in a month
than we are now because I think that the way that we are
interpreting and understanding knowledge has
fundamentally changed in really, really positive ways, in
really positive ways.
((MUSIC))
((TRT: 04:34))
((Banner: A Doctor’s Challenge))
((Reporter/Camera/Producer: Jeff Swicord))
((Map: Washington, DC))
((Main characters: 1 male))
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Dr. Amey Kulkarni, Cardiologist, Kaiser Permanente))
I first actually got interested in medicine when I was about
seven years old. I had typhoid fever which is really
unusual. I was very sick and I was in the hospital for
eighteen days. After that I felt pulled towards medicine. You
know there is something about the chance to take care of
people when they’re at their most vulnerable that really
spoke to me, that sort of always stuck.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Dr. Amey Kulkarni, Cardiologist, Kaiser Permanente))
I don’t think that anyone thought in our lifetimes we would
see anything like coronavirus.
((All Photos Courtesy: AP))
((Dr. Amey Kulkarni, Cardiologist, Kaiser Permanente))
Life on the COVID wards is both rewarding and
tense. There is an understanding of what this disease is and
what it can do.
((1st Photo Courtesy: AP))
((2nd and 3rd Photos Courtesy: Reuters))
((Dr. Amey Kulkarni, Cardiologist, Kaiser Permanente))
And so, you know the way that we pay attention to donning
and doffing the personal protective equipment, the way that
we are attentive to how frequently nurses, therapists, people
who do tests, physicians, go into the rooms, we are very
thoughtful about those features.
((All Photos Courtesy: AP))
((Dr. Amey Kulkarni, Cardiologist, Kaiser Permanente))
People who are sick and very uncomfortable have the
chance to get better. And people do get better. I think that
that’s an important thing to remember about coronavirus is
that it is a disease that lots of people can recover from. And
I think the chance to be a part of that I think is really
rewarding.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((NATS: Dr. Amey Kulkarni))
Can I ask you to check your pulse just like this? Put your
fingers on your wrist.
((Dr. Amey Kulkarni, Cardiologist, Kaiser Permanente))
Everyone’s life has changed as a result of coronavirus and
our lives as physicians is no different in that way. And so,
switching from an in-office based practice to a virtual
practice, we were able to do that part relatively quickly.
And now I worry that my heart patients are scared to seek
care because they are worried about getting coronavirus in
the hospital. And I worry about the patients with coronavirus
that they are going to have some devastating
complication. And so, you worry in both directions which I
think is a new feeling for all of us.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Dr. Amey Kulkarni, Cardiologist, Kaiser Permanente))
I think like everybody, my family has ups and downs with the
crisis. We have a lot of home activities that we plan as a
family to sort of remind each other that this is a moment to
pause and enjoy each other. My wife is the champion of
that.
((NATS: Dr. Amey Kulkarni))
Ready? One, two, three. Nice.
((Dr. Amey Kulkarni, Cardiologist, Kaiser Permanente))
Many of us worry about being a vector for our families. I
think that that is something that’s on all of our
minds. Everyone is a little bit more anxious than they were
three months ago and a little bit more stressed. My wife and
kids, if something happened to them, it would be
devastating. My greatest fear is that I am going to give it to
my parents. They are, you know, in that higher risk
category. And we’re cognizant of the risks of being a
healthcare worker.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((All Photos Courtesy: Reuters))
((Dr. Amey Kulkarni, Cardiologist, Kaiser Permanente))
Medical knowledge has undertaken this grand revolution in
the last two months because of the pandemic. I think that a
wider swath of medical professionals have learned how to
quickly interpret data and understand what is good data and
bad data in a way that we have never been able to do
before. It helped us move faster through the science of
coronavirus. I think that we are better prepared now than we
were two months ago. We will be better prepared in a month
than we are now because I think that the way that we are
interpreting and understanding knowledge has
fundamentally changed in really, really positive ways, in
really positive ways.
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