Like most of us, Dr. Allen Coffman is sickened by the politicization of the coronavirus.
“It got so political, it was impossible to know what was real and what wasn’t,” the doctor with Highland Pediatrics in Hixson said Wednesday morning. “So I decided to put on my big-boy pants and see what I could do to help.”
Of course, Coffman and all of the medical folks who roll into their offices, hospital emergency departments and the like are doing way more than the rest of us already. They are the frontline troops choosing to gear up and fight the enemy hand-to-hand as the rest of us isolate and distance.
But that was not enough for Coffman.
“It felt like every patient I saw, we spent the last 10 minutes discussing what’s next and what’s safe,” he said. “This scenario or that instance, about church or summer camps or whether we can hug grandma. I guess that’s how it started.”