What It’s Like to Be a Doctor With a Pre-Existing Condition During Covid-19
1 min readDec 2, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic is hard for all health workers, including those who don’t treat patients with the virus. , MD, writes about what it’s like to navigate seeing patients while personally worrying about the risks of contracting Covid-19. Cejas is immunocompromised due to her own history of serious medical issues including cancer and a debilitating stroke. Seeing people being treated for Covid-19 has brought back unwanted memories of her own experience in the ICU. “I was haunted by half forgotten dreams of drowning, nightmare memories from my time spent on a ventilator years ago,” she writes. Read her full essay below.
