WNY House Physician
Why We See Patients in their Homes
By Anees Amad, M.D.
I have been providing care to COVID-19 patients throughout this horrific pandemic. Along with other wonderful providers, we strain to hear one another’s muffled voices through layers of personal protective equipment, acutely aware of the frail balance of life and death.
Signs everywhere summoned us to “Save Lives, Stay Home, Flatten the Curve,” all while SARS COV-2 infected patients lay in hospital isolation rooms struggling to breathe, attached to oxygen, unable to receive visitors, and who are unsure of their future. With respiratory distress, intubations, and deaths on the rise, COVID has been humbling, traumatic, and emotionally draining. As patients and families yearned for one another’s touch and physical presence, medical providers eyes through a face shield became the only source of comfort for loneliness, isolation, and frustration.
As a Pakistani-American physician, my wife and I have many diverse American friends including Christians, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, Deists, Agnostics, and Atheists, all helping one another during this difficult time. We have been touched by the generosity displayed by so many in our community — banks postponing mortgages and credit card payments, restaurants providing free meals to healthcare workers, vendors selling clothing at discounted prices to support healthcare professionals, pet care providers caring for the beloved canines and felines of first responders working round the clock to care for us.
Speaking of first responders, we are grateful for our health providers, firefighters, police, ambulance drivers, and more for whom we “lit up the night.” As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to change lives, and our approach to medical care and treatment of this unprecedented virus keeps evolving, I pray and hope that the world will soon overcome this terrible virus.
In the meantime, as the pandemic continues to change lives, we know that our approach to medical care and treatment must also change. Thus, we are pleased to offer primary care medical services to individuals and families throughout Western New York in the privacy of their own homes. If you are a health care professional interested in joining our team or a patient seeking services, learn more at www.wnyhousephysician.com or call 716-474-5983. We currently accept most insurances, including Medicare and Medicaid, and offer insurance-covered in-house radiology and blood work.
Anees Ahmad, MD is a board-certified physician in internal medicine with extensive experience treating patients in diverse settings, inpatient, outpatient, academic institutions, skilled nursing, assisted living, and community health centers.
