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Sabrina Poirier, mentioned in the article, worked long and hard with the author to ensure she got things as right as possible (of course, the editor has final say):
https://www.macleans.ca/longforms/c...iled-lives-and-no-way-out-this-is-long-covid/
This summer, Fung spoke out on social media about being a physician with long COVID and was surprised by the cruelty of some of the responses. She says a psychiatrist reached out to tell her that her problems are all in her head; another physician told her that she’s not fit to practise medicine. She is distressed at how often patients with long COVID, even those who work in health care, are not believed. “We have continued beliefs out there in the profession that long COVID is not real, and fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue are not real,” she says. “It’s very minimizing and invalidating to hear that from my own colleagues. If that’s how they’re talking to me, what are they saying to patients?”
Sabrina Poirier, mentioned in the article, worked long and hard with the author to ensure she got things as right as possible (of course, the editor has final say):
https://www.macleans.ca/longforms/c...iled-lives-and-no-way-out-this-is-long-covid/
This summer, Fung spoke out on social media about being a physician with long COVID and was surprised by the cruelty of some of the responses. She says a psychiatrist reached out to tell her that her problems are all in her head; another physician told her that she’s not fit to practise medicine. She is distressed at how often patients with long COVID, even those who work in health care, are not believed. “We have continued beliefs out there in the profession that long COVID is not real, and fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue are not real,” she says. “It’s very minimizing and invalidating to hear that from my own colleagues. If that’s how they’re talking to me, what are they saying to patients?”