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erenyeager said:
Hi, thought I'd get your advice. I have 3 options, but they are somewhat mutually exclusive due to time constraints:
  • temp screening of hospital staff and visitors (not patients), potential to transport patients if needed
  • food bank to give out food
  • research from home, guaranteed pub at the end (will be a few months though)
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Temperature screening and research from home.

Multitask by bringing your laptop to the screening desk for any downtime
 
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erenyeager said:
Hi, thought I'd get your advice. I have 3 options, but they are somewhat mutually exclusive due to time constraints:
  • temp screening of hospital staff and visitors (not patients), potential to transport patients if needed
  • food bank to give out food
  • research from home, guaranteed pub at the end (will be a few months though)
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Either 1 or 2. Research is overrated. Medicine is a service profession.
 
Can't you do all three if you wanted? They're probably not requiring heavy duty hour commitments. My food bank halted volunteers and giving jobs to displaced food workers. I'd do the temp check and research personally.
 
LizzyM said:
Having one's personal laptop at a screening desk could introduce the potential of contamination of the laptop. Cannot recommend.
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Even if OP was allowed to use his personal laptop (by remoting in), he/she needs to simply use a purple top wipe once they're done at the station. Considering that OP is already significantly exposed by being there, not having a laptop isn't going to change exposure risk much.
 
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Research from home does not require lab skills or "good hands" and, frankly, and to my dismay, is not highly regarded by most adcom members who value bench research although it has little relationship to what 21st century doctors actually do as practitioners (back in the day my 92 year old friend did her own CBCs and chemistries as a resident and having some lab skills were important).
 
LizzyM said:
Research from home does not require lab skills or "good hands" and, frankly, and to my dismay, is not highly regarded by most adcom members who value bench research although it has little relationship to what 21st century doctors actually do as practitioners (back in the day my 92 year old friend did her own CBCs and chemistries as a resident and having some lab skills were important).
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I did Hct's, U/A's, pregnancy tests (the flocculation ones), wet mounts, ferning (for ruptured membranes) and plenty more!
 
LizzyM said:
Research from home does not require lab skills or "good hands" and, frankly, and to my dismay, is not highly regarded by most adcom members who value bench research although it has little relationship to what 21st century doctors actually do as practitioners (back in the day my 92 year old friend did her own CBCs and chemistries as a resident and having some lab skills were important).
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who has time for bench research when COVID is shelving it easily
 
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