Henry Ford Allegiance Family Medicine - East Michigan issued the following announcement on May 8.
When Mohamed Fayed, an anesthesiology resident physician with Henry Ford Hospital, tested positive for COVID-19, his first concern was not to himself but how he would not be able to continue working with his team on the frontlines.
“I still have the email. I’ll never forget it. It basically said, ‘I just can’t wait to get back to the front lines,’” recalls Nicholas Yeldo, M.D., director for the Anesthesiology Residency program at the hospital and Dr. Fayed’s supervisor. “Our message to him was, ‘Hey Mohamed, take a break and take care of yourself and we’ll check on you.’”
Dr. Fayed tested positive for the coronavirus on March 30. He immediately sent his wife and daughter to stay at an Airbnb while he quarantined himself at home.
In the midst of redeploying his residents, Dr. Yeldo, who also works in the intensive care unit, continued to check in on his resident’s condition. “We were doing our best to stay in touch with him, by text and email, knowing that he was now all alone in his apartment,” Dr. Yeldo says.
During one of those check ins, Dr. Fayed didn’t respond for a number of hours. Toward the end of the day, Dr. Yeldo received a “frightened response” from his resident.
“He just sounded horrible, he couldn’t breathe normal and couldn’t catch his breath,” Dr. Yeldo recalls. “I told him he needed to go to the Emergency Department immediately.” Dr. Fayed was subsequently admitted and hospitalized for five days in the intensive care unit.
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Source: Henry Ford Allegiance Family Medicine - East Michigan
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