Searching for Human Connectedness During COVID-19

J Gen Intern Med. 2020 Oct;35(10):3043-3044. doi: 10.1007/s11606-020-06082-9. Epub 2020 Aug 10.

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 types

  • Editorial
  • Personal Narrative

MeSH terms

  • Betacoronavirus
  • COVID-19
  • Computers, Handheld
  • Coronavirus Infections / psychology
  • Coronavirus Infections / therapy*
  • Humanism
  • Humans
  • Internal Medicine
  • Pandemics
  • Physician-Patient Relations*
  • Pneumonia, Viral / psychology
  • Pneumonia, Viral / therapy*
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • Social Isolation / psychology*