----------------- COVID-19 measures 19th March 2020 ----------------- Everything is not always going wrong. Although the hospital did not always took the best decisions in the past, their approach of COVID-19 has been quite intelligent until now. Saturday we received an email telling that all outpatient visits should be cancelled except for urgent cases. The IT department did set up a system to send SMS to patients telling that their visit has been cancelled. The same system will keep a track of all these cancellations allowing to contact these patients again when things will calm down. Saturday evening I went to the hospital, to go through all patients files, deciding which visit to keep and which one to cancel. For each cancelled visit, the patient received an SMS telling the reason (COVID-19 measures) and explaining that they will be contacted later. Monday we decided with our boss that not all doctors need to be present every day. So now, each day, we have a senior, a junior and a secretary in three different rooms. Our other colleagues are working from home. These measures are supposed to continue until early April. Seems quite optimistic to me...