Blood & Cancer

COVID-19: ‘The world has changed’

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Zainab Shahid, MD, medical director of bone marrow transplant infectious diseases at the Levine Cancer Institute/Atrium Health in Charlotte, N.C., breaks down when cancer patients should seek testing for COVID-19 and how they should be treated. Dr. Shahid also compares notes with Blood & Cancer host David H. Henry, MD, of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, on how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world of medical education. In Clinical Correlation, Ilana Yurkiewicz, MD, of Stanford (Calif.) University, celebrates National Doctors Day amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Topics covered in this podcast: How the education of trainees as changed. Use of telehealth screening and visits. COVID-19 case volume and when oncology patients should seek testing. Which patients should be considered immunocompromised. *   *   *   For more MDedge Podcasts, go to mdedge.com/podcasts Email the show: podcasts@mdedge.com Interact with us on Twitter: @MDedgehemonc David Henry on Twitter: @davidhenrymd Ilana Yurkiewicz on Tw