The world is upside down; how coronavirus changes the way we care for our patients

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In a week, everything changed. From busy clinics and operating rooms to phone calls and cancellations. For many of us, the change is frustrating because we feel unable to care for our patients and treat their functional problems in the light of a pandemic. Sorting through clinic and operating room schedules to see who should or should not be seen and whether or not a phone call will be sufficient care has moved our normal operating systems completely off track. As the pandemic has spread, it has affected urogynecologists across the globe. Many of us are performing virus screening, staffing obstetrics and spending many hours on the phone, reaching out to our patients. It is likely that these changes will persist for some time. If so, what will we learn from this, and how will it affect our future practice? …