15-Covid + Quarantine= Gravity Drive
The Covid-19 situation has affected each of us in so many ways. While the world struggled to find a collective way to cope and survive, it was divided by media and misinformation. Even now as we recover and begin our “new way of life”, we are continually plagued by political agendas and media frenzy. Join our conversation with Dr. Ryan McNamara, a Covid-19 frontline hospitalist, as he shares firsthand information. We then redirect our discussion to newly learned skills and hobbies as a positive result of the epidemic. Make sure you listen all the way through to the end to find out how you can win one of two prizes!!
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Ryan McNamara MD
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Ryan McNamara attended medical school at the University of Alabama in Birmingham and did his residency in Internal Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He has practiced hospital-based acute care medicine in Tennessee since completing training in 2001. He is married with three children.
As a hospitalist, Dr. McNamara has cared for the entire spectrum of humanity: from the homeless drug addicts to the parents of U.S. Congressmen; from penniless immigrants to celebrities; from young adults to the demented elderly. Acute illness strikes us all. His practice has ranged from the emergency room to the ICU, to the rehab center. Mostly, Dr. McNamara practices upon the general medicine ward, diagnosing and treating medical problems severe enough to get one hospitalized, but not severe as to require life support: diseases of the heart, lungs, or kidneys; of the blood, gut, or brain. Every day, he balances the medical needs of his patients with their psychological ones; the science with the art.
In 2020, Dr. McNamara’s job changed suddenly and completely, as it did for so many other hospitalists and hospital workers. Going to work before then meant a wide variety of diagnoses and a wide range of solutions would present themselves each day. In all of them, Dr. McNamara would be walking in the footsteps of the giants who tread before him. Every disease had been seen before; every problem could be matched with a coherent plan. And if he didn’t know the disease, or how to execute that plan, there would always be a “specialist” who would.
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