Amelita Woodruff

Johns Hopkins University | JHU · Department of Medicine

Primary care physicians (PCPs) are commonly approached with concerns involving patient genetics. This is a challenge because most PCPs lack expertise in genetic testing compared to their genetic counselor counterparts. Currently, the recommended best practice is to refer patients for genetic testing based on cancer-related family history questionna...

Objective : Add to available understanding of COVID-19 to help decrease further spread of SARS-CoV-2 by providing protocol providers can consider when giving patients recommendations to retest as well as length of time for self-isolation. Methods : We retrospectively collected data from the electronic medical record of patients in the Mayo Clinic...

In this personal reflection, as a Family Medicine resident at an Academic Center in Northeast Florida, as well as being a chronic illness patient myself, I explore the notion of dying alone and away from family. Although COVID-19 has changed the practice of medicine in many ways, prior to that, and before the instillation of hospital no-visitor pol...

•Positive cases of SARS-CoV-2 were seen in the Mayo Clinic FL COVID Virtual Clinic.•70% of patients met CDC guidelines for release from quarantine & still tested (+).•The average time from onset of symptoms to negative testing was 19 days.