id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-317594-5pm2pj0p Brooks, Oliver T. What If They Threw A Pandemic And Nobody Came? 2020-05-22 .txt text/plain 968 60 67 Author affiliation: Chief Medical Officer, Watts HealthCare Corporation, Los Angeles, CA, USA W e are at present in the throes of a SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the coronaviruis that causes the disease process COVID-19, characterized by fever, cough and shortness of breath 1 that may lead to death. The message I would like to convey is that in times of high stress, in this case a pandemic, management of this, by we physicians, is what we were trained to do. Leaving treating illness behind, we have been forced to evolve with our training to understand that there is the next level; that is not just healing the sick and reducing comorbidities, but keeping the healthy well. We as physicians need to know more about COVID-19 than anyone else, as we pledged an oath (of Hippocrates or Imhotep) to be ready for anything related to health and wellness, e.g. a pandemic. ./cache/cord-317594-5pm2pj0p.txt ./txt/cord-317594-5pm2pj0p.txt