BONUS EPISODE, Living with Long Covid with Dr Joanna Herman
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2021
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Today I chat with Dr Joanna Herman, a Consultant in Infectious Diseases and during the first wave of the Pandemic, she contracted COVID. Despite being defined as a ‘mild’ case, with no risk factors for severe disease, she is still significantly debilitated by symptoms of ‘Long COVID’, and has been unable to return to work as a hospital physician for the past year.
As you will hear on the pod, Joanna is a very well established physician with years of experience. She has taught at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine for 14 years, and has been on the Council of the British Infection Association since 2015. She has worked for Médecins Sans Frontières, is a medical writer, and a specialist medical advisor for the BBC programme Holby City. She is also a qualified Ashtanga Yoga teacher.
Joanna wrote for The Guardian about her experience with Long COVID which is how I came upon the story. And it was particularly touching for me as Joanna also has the perspective of a doctor as a patient, and her experience has highlighted a system that is struggling to help those with a condition not yet understood.
Last year, Joanna set up a yoga group for people who were experiencing significant lung problems following their COVID infection. Combining medical and yoga knowledge, Joanna has helped them learn how to access their lungs and breathe again, and regain their physical pre-viral strength.
There are some absolute nuggets of inspiration that I personally found useful during our conversation and I do hope you enjoy this.
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| 1:55.7 | Today I chat with Dr Joanna Herman, a consultant in infectious diseases and during the first wave of the pandemic she contracted COVID. |
| 2:04.5 | Now despite being defined as a mild case with no risk factors for severe disease, |
| 2:10.7 | she is still significantly debilitated by symptoms of what we refer to as long COVID and has since been unable to return to work as a hospital physician for the past year. |
| 2:23.1 | Now as you hear on the pod, Dr Joanna is a very well established physician with years of experience. |
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