Searching for Human Connectedness During COVID-19. Editorial Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally transformed doctor-patient communication, stripping away moments of connection that define the humanism of medicine. The barrier of isolation has impacted patients and patient care, and has also affected the experience of the physician. Though in-person connection is impossible to replicate digitally, technology has restored some sense of togetherness.

publication date

  • August 10, 2020

Research

keywords

  • Coronavirus Infections
  • Physician-Patient Relations
  • Pneumonia, Viral
  • Social Isolation

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC7417099

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 85089250673

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1007/s11606-020-06082-9

PubMed ID

  • 32779138

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 35

issue

  • 10