The Anxiety of Being a Doctor With a Compromised Immune System

A physician shares her pandemic story

Diana Cejas
Elemental
Published in
4 min readDec 2, 2020

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Photo: Joe Cicak/Getty Images

Doctors didn’t know what we were doing those first few weeks of the pandemic. I’d argue that we still don’t really know what we’re doing, but at least now we have a bit of experience. Physicians like me have our years of training and our fount of clinical knowledge, but this virus caught us…

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Diana Cejas
Elemental

Pediatric Neurologist with interest in neurodevelopmental disabilities & transition to adult healthcare. Cancer survivor. Stroke survivor. Advocate.