{"id":22834,"date":"2020-04-14T20:48:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T20:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=311876"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:16:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:16:48","slug":"during-no-visitor-policy-at-hospital-surgeon-comforts-breast-cancer-patient-getting-scan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/during-no-visitor-policy-at-hospital-surgeon-comforts-breast-cancer-patient-getting-scan\/","title":{"rendered":"During No-Visitor Policy at Hospital, Surgeon Comforts Breast Cancer Patient Getting Scan"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the world battles back against the COVID-19 pandemic<\/a>, hospitals are taking extra precautions to ensure that as few people as possible get sick. One of the new policies many healthcare facilities are adopting is to limit or even ban visitors. This keeps visitors from getting sick or from bringing the virus to patients and healthcare workers who have not yet contracted it. It\u2019s a tough policy for people who want to see their loved ones and are not able to, but it\u2019s necessary to help everyone stay safe and healthy.<\/span>Jessica Roubitchek<\/a> is one woman who has been affected by her hospital\u2019s no visitor policy during the pandemic. Jessica is a breast cancer survivor, so she\u2019s no stranger to hospital stays and treatments, but she was still scared to go to the hospital to get the scan that would tell her whether her cancer had returned and potentially spread to other areas of her body.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: CBS 2 Chicago<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>Jessica really could have used a friend to sit at her side and hold her hand during such a difficult and nerve-wracking time. But because of the hospital\u2019s policy on visitors, she wasn\u2019t allowed to bring anyone.<\/span>\u201cThe thought of walking into that hospital for those terrifying scans that were going to tell us whether or not I have cancer, it just felt like too much,\u201d Jessica recalls.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: CBS 2 Chicago<\/a><\/span>Luckily, however, Jessica also knows people at that hospital who have treated her before and who care about not only her physical well-being but her emotional well-being. When Dr. Claudia Perez<\/a>, a surgeon at Rush Hospital, learned about Jessica\u2019s predicament, she promised to be there with her through the whole thing.<\/span>
\n<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: CBS 2 Chicago<\/a><\/span>\u201cIt was a small thing,\u201d Dr.Perez said. \u201cIt was something that I thought was the right thing to do and as a human. I think all of us would do that if we could.\u201d<\/span>Jessica did end up learning that her cancer had returned, meaning she\u2019ll need more treatments in the future, but happily, she had Dr. Perez by her side to comfort and reassure her.<\/span>
\n<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: CBS 2 Chicago<\/a><\/span>\u201cMy appreciation was just, I mean, I can\u2019t even describe how grateful I am and how grateful my family was that she did that for me,\u201d says Jessica.<\/span>Check out the video to learn more about the small gesture that made a big impact for someone going through a tough time. May we all have the kind of courage and compassion it takes to be there for someone the way Dr. Perez was and is for Jessica.<\/span>Proper BCS greatergood_ctg_abovevideo<\/span><\/span>Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the world battles back against the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals are taking extra precautions to ensure that as few people as possible get sick. One of the new policies many healthcare facilities are adopting is to limit or even ban visitors. This keeps visitors from getting sick or from bringing the virus to patients and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44304,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22834\/revisions\/44304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}