<span itemprop="author">Manya J. Gupta, MD

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Reflections on a year of COVID

One year ago, on March 14, I worked my first of many COVID shifts as a hospitalist at a large academic teaching institution in Chicago.  In the beginning, I think most of us on the front lines felt a strange combination of duty, fear, and exhilaration….

TikTok in the time of COVID: an unexpected wellness tool for health care workers

I recently discovered an app called TikTok.  From what I can tell, it seems to be used primarily by younger people who record themselves performing short music videos, lip-syncing scenes, or absurdities with their unsuspecting family members and pets. …