Okay, so if you would just say your name and what you do, please.

My name is Dr. Rebecca Curth.

I'm an associate professor of clinical medicine at the Vagilus College of Physicians and Surgeons

at Columbia University, and I'm a general internist and private practice in Manhattan.

We should also say you are our family doctor, and I think you're great, so thank you.

Thank you for that.

It's been an interesting few months. Can you give us a quick overview really what your typical

day was like during the COVID peak in New York City and how that compared to a typical day pre-COVID?

Yeah, so I do predominantly preventive medicine. I do a lot of checkups and things that are

done in a fairly routine fashion. What happened at the end of March is I went from having

a few conversations with people who were having fever to having eight to ten patients a day

calling in with symptoms that were concerning. I would say of my practice of about 1,000 patients

50 had COVID-related illness. I spent a lot of time basically talking to people on the

phone the last two weeks of March and the first two weeks of April where the peak time

here in New York City. At what point did you stop going into your office

to see people and handling this all electronically?

I never stopped going into my office because I live within walking distance of my office.

My office manager and I worked the entire time. It was also easier for me to be in my office

in what I felt was my command central when I was handling all the phone calls. I had very

quick access to my electronic health records. I was able to use my office as a reassuring

background for any video calls that I had with patients. It just allowed me to stay focused.

I would do an initial consult, a telemedicine consult, and then I would create my list of

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