Farewell instructions and advices to a son who will report back to duty in PGH after 11 days of self-isolation in the house (for self-observation and building back host resistance):
Go back to PGH and continue to serve the Filipino people with potential and actual surgical health problems amidst the COVID19 crisis. You are needed there.
As much as possible and try your very best to avoid being infected with COVID19 infection.
Best strategies against being infected with COVID19 infection:
1) mindfulness; vigilance; learn from the "experience" of others who got infected and died of COVID19 infection;
2) use personal protective equipment to the optimum and maximum when managing patients - consider all patients as potentially contaminated;
3) practice safe care when managing patients - if there is such a thing as patient safety measures there should also be a counterpart - physician safety measures;
4) practice physical distancing even with colleagues - consider them as potentially contaminated; and
5) continuously maintain and even increase your host resistance, especially with adequate nutrition, rest and exercises.
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