Nina Fam was bored, weak and heavy drug. The first person to transmit the Ebola virus on American soil, she was taken by ambulance to the National Institutes of Health, where she was treated in the safest room of the country’s most prestigious medical facility. Ms. Pham did not know who her doctor was. She would have recognized him in his defensive armor anyway.
A stranger in a hegemony suit who sued Ms. Pham was personally cared for six years ago by the now well-known and well-known doctor of the country: Anthony Fauci.
“I remember it being such a quiet presence.” “He is so confident that he gave me confidence and I found strength and confidence in myself that I would beat this.”
2020 was the year that millions of Americans became acquainted with the way Dr. Fawcett’s bed was made. It began with the nation’s leading expert in infectious diseases hearing news of a mysterious, novel-type coronavirus in Wuhan, China. It ended with him being injected into the camera to guarantee a miraculously developed vaccine.
Dr. Fauki was preferred in part because there was at least one thing about his life that has not changed this year: the country’s most famous bureaucrat is still a practicing doctor.
Just days before his 80th birthday, on the eve of his sleeve, Dr. Fauqi explained why he was being vaccinated. He said he felt “confident” that people were safe. He also needed shots to do his job. He stays with the attending physician at the NIH Clinical Center, treating patients two or three days a week.
Many believed in Dr. F. Key, helping to explore the country through the spread of AIDS, bioterrorism, Ebola, swine flu and infectious diseases, which could be health hazards, citing his four decades of experience, while others criticized his popularity. Expressed resentment and paid attention to his message. He was periodically ousted by President Trump and denied by some of the president’s most ardent supporters that he needed protection.
“I have never made myself the final and only voice in this,” said Dr. F. Sen during a bitter congressional hearing in May. Told Rand Paul (R., Q.). “I am a scientist, a doctor and a public health officer. I advise according to the best scientific evidence. “
The key to understanding the response cutter was an easily overlooked word in the answer: physician.
“He always told me that the most important thing for him was to take care of the patients,” said John Galin, longtime director of the NIH Clinical Center. “He thought the privilege of helping people when he was sick was the most rewarding and the last thing he would ever give up.”
D patients. “Treating patients is an important part of my identity,” Fawcett said earlier this year.
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The epidemic is therefore dau. Faussie used that he took a break from his rounds from March. But for the most part in the last nine months – coronavirus task force briefings, numerous media appearances and occasional Instagram chats with a celebrity – Dr. Fauqi made time to see patients at the hospital. Some of them had such severe cases of the disease that he even fought outside the hospital.
“Every once in a while, usually when I’m driving home alone or when I’m out for a walk with my wife I say to myself: Boy, I wish I could be back in the emergency room caring for patients,” said Dr. Fauki said in an interview earlier this year. “It’s such an important part of my identity.”
This balance he maintains between research and clinical work is a defining characteristic of his career. As long as he was at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, even before he was director, Dr. Foucault believed that treating one patient could help treat many patients. It’s a lesson that was instilled in him early in his career.
“We were able to do something that people said you can’t do: you can’t do clinical medicine at the same time that you do very basic research,” he once told a NIH historian about his first impressive work. “That’s absolutely wrong.”
This philosophy made Dr. Faussie a medical assistant. His clinical investigator’s breed was once called “endangered species” in the pages of the New England Journal of Medicine – and it was in the 1970s. According to traditional wisdom you can be a clinician or a scientist, but not both.
Dr. Fauki disagrees. He was so determined to pursue the two that he refused to give up his practice when he became NIIAD director. And he made it clear in the early, fierce days of the epidemic that he plans to resume his regularly scheduled rounds on Wednesday and Friday as soon as possible. Then he did.
“You’re lucky,” said Steven Scharstein, president of Shepard Pratt Health Systems in Maryland, to keep Tony F. Key as your doctor.
In the early 1980s, Dr. Shau Fustin, who met with Dr. Fauki every day, remembers him crying openly over the death of a young AIDS patient he was treating. His colleagues say that Dr. Fausi never forgot that people do not have data. “They were outnumbered in the study,” Dr. Scharstein said.
Since helping to treat an Ebola patient in 2014, Dr. in protective gear.
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Nina Pham, a nurse in Dallas, Texas, helped care for a man who died of Ebola in October 2014. Two days later, his fever increased. The. “Take him to the NIH,” Fawcett said.
Ms. Pham was isolated in the hospital’s Special Clinical Studies Unit, a biocontainment facility built after the September 11 attacks, and there was danger in the air when he arrived. As the organization’s Medicare-qualified director, Dr. Fau Ki said caring for an Ebola patient was not a natural choice. But for them it was no brainer.
Said once, ‘I didn’t like the idea of telling my employees to risk getting infected if I wasn’t willing to do it myself.’
Dr .. Fausi went out to make her family comfortable in times of uncanny discomfort, he said. Before his age had to teach others how to zoom in, he learned facetime so they could communicate regularly. He still emails regularly with 1970’s patients – his inbox box was filled in 2020. But the most reassuring thing he did for Mrs. Pham happened before she remembered to meet him. Ms. Shortly after Pham was admitted, Dr. Fauki shared a message with the world: He predicted that she would survive Ebola.
Eight days later she was rolled into the hospital, Ms. Pham Drs. Came out with Fauki’s hug.
Ms. “I trusted my life in them, and I will do it again,” Fame said.
But even when she was given leave, dau. As Fawcett promised, his doctors were not with him. A few months after the Ebola scare, Ms. A report on Pham, who is now a clinical consultant for an insurance broker, came in the Null’s Internal Medicine. Dr. Fauki was one of the writers.
His team gathered enough data on his case to be admitted to a serious hospital in scientific knowledge. They saved lives by learning how to save more lives.
“That’s essentially what we do here,” Dr. Faussie said.
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