History of Present Illness A 47-year-old woman was seen for the first time in our clinic. She had approximately a two-year history of gradually increasing shortness of breath to the point where she could only climb one flight of stairs. In addition, she has a history of a cough sometimes productive and sometimes nonproductive. She did hear herself wheeze intermittently.
No abstract available. Article truncated after 150 words. Dr. Dona Upson forwarded an article from Sunday’s edition of the Albuquerque Journal featured Michel Boivin, a SWJPCC Associate Editor, in an article titled, “Exhaustion in the ICU: Doctors reflect on state’s nearly 5,000 COVID-19 deaths” (1). Boivin and his wife Teri Heynekamp, a married couple who were many years at the University of New Mexico, shared their thoughts last week on New Mexico nearing 5,000 COVID-19 deaths (Figure 1). Yesterday was Day 587 of the COVID-19 pandemic in New Mexico, just another brief hospital scene amid 19 months of loneliness, fatigue and grief. “We feel exhausted,” Heynekamp said in an interview, “like a type of exhaustion that I’ve never experienced in my life.” Doctors and other health care providers say their workload has hardly let up. Even the arrival of safe, effective vaccines, some doctors say, has provided little relief, introducing a new dynamic instead — the knowledge that most …
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