{"id":2453,"date":"2020-04-10T19:13:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T23:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/?p=2453"},"modified":"2020-05-01T19:13:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T23:13:20","slug":"gim-faculty-on-the-covid-19-frontlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/2020\/04\/10\/gim-faculty-on-the-covid-19-frontlines\/","title":{"rendered":"GIM Faculty on the COVID-19 Frontlines"},"content":{"rendered":"
As the largest safety-net hospital in New England, Boston Medical Center cares for the most vulnerable and often under-served communities in Boston and is currently caring for the second highest number of COVID-19 patients in the city.<\/span><\/header>\n

Drs. James Hudspeth and Sarah Kimball of the Department\u2019s Section of General Internal Medicine share their experiences working on the frontlines in an unprecedented time for the hospital and the country.<\/p>\n

\"\"Dr.\u00a0<\/strong>Hudspeth<\/strong>\u00a0oversees the hospital\u2019s COVID-19 response inpatient floor, where he assesses and cares for patients who are too sick to stay at home but who do not require intensive care. \u201c\u2018I\u2019ve been doing this for 14 years, and I have a very good sense of a patient with pneumonia, who looks good and who looks bad, and what kind of patient I need to worry about. COVID-19 upends all that.\u2019\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Dr. Kimball<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>codirects BMC\u2019s newly launched influenza-like illness (ILI) clinic. Here she and her team assess patients who present with flu like symptoms to determine risk and tracing for possible contact with and transmission of\u00a0COVID-19. \u201c\u2019We want to know how sick they are, what symptoms they have experienced, where they work, and if they are homeless,\u201d Kimball says. \u201cWe do a symptom screener and then we do a risk screener.\u2019\u201d\u00a0Read More\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Full story appears in\u00a0<\/span>BU Today by\u00a0Art Jahnke<\/a><\/p>\n

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As the largest safety-net hospital in New England, Boston Medical Center cares for the most vulnerable and often under-served communities in Boston and is currently caring for the second highest number of COVID-19 patients in the city. Drs. James Hudspeth and Sarah Kimball of the Department\u2019s Section of General Internal Medicine share their experiences working […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14042,"featured_media":2454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2456,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions\/2456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}