Rural psychiatric care in the time of COVID-19

In writing this, I feel a bit strange to contribute my thoughts on a pandemic I’ve had mostly a peripheral experience with dealing first hand. In my brief month on the medicine ward, I did interact with a patient who then was tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 (the official name for COVID-19), and subsequently, I was on a state-mandated quarantine. Asides from that experience, I have not truly seen first-hand the …

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