Christian Gogoll, MD, is a pulmonary specialist who suffers from post-COVID syndrome. Before he was infected with SARS-CoV-2 in January 2021, he worked as a pulmonary specialist and was head of department at an acute care clinic. Gogall, the senior physician of the Evangelical Pulmonary Clinic Berlin, has been employed as a family physician in a Medical Care Center (MVZ) in Berlin. For the past year he has been on parental leave.
He was admitted to the intensive care unit with COVID-19 and suffered from dyspnea and myocarditis. Little by little, his symptoms have been improving. As he says, there are good days and bad days. In the following, he describes which treatment and therapy approaches he underwent, why the family physician should be the first port of call for patients with long COVID, and he gives advice to his colleagues
This article was translated from the Medscape German edition.