‘Since the Peninsular War in the early 1800s we have recognised guerrillas – the Viet Cong, the Tamil Tigers, and recently, the Taliban – frustrate and humiliate larger forces by discretely invading territories, co-opting locals and being seemingly resistant to traditional warfare offensives. Equally, our public health institutes, gleaming hospital buildings, expensive diagnostic machines, a legion of administrators and medical personnel have been humbled (and humiliated) by this virus. Our fragmented healthcare industry is now united by a microscopic organism, as competing systems share laboratory testing and treatment protocols while hospital leadership cross battle lines to share guarded patient census and drug availability information.’
This is a most personal and touching account by a doctor on the frontline in the US. Dr Avinesh S Bhar, now in Georgia, grew up in Kuala Lumpur.
Read here (SLIIP, April 9, 2020)
