A Novel Virus, Evergreen Concerns

I wrote this column in April and have the following scenario on patient-care issues readers were telling me they were experiencing in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic's spread across the United States. Look for a follow-up piece in the August issue of APTA Magazine on ethical issues related to practice competence under radically altered circumstances.

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