Department of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Department of Urology, University of Copenhagen, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Nat Rev Urol. 2020 Sep;17(9):493-498. doi: 10.1038/s41585-020-0352-6. Epub 2020 Jul 6.
On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization declared SARS-CoV-2 and its associated disease, COVID-19, a global pandemic. Across the world, governments took action to slow the spread and hospitals rushed to accommodate an influx of patients with this highly infectious and lethal disease. The urology departments in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, and Herlev and Gentofte, Copenhagen, Denmark — which are linked by the pre-existing CopMich Collaborative — had to respond with massive changes to the organization, staffing and workload of their teams. In this Viewpoint, authors from different urological subspecialties and at different career stages reflect on their experiences during the pandemic. Although their countries’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic differed radically, the similarities between the responses in Copenhagen and Michigan demonstrate the universal characteristics of medicine and the value of teamwork, flexibility and collaboration.
2020 年 3 月 11 日，世界卫生组织宣布严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒 2 及其相关疾病 COVID-19 为全球性大流行。世界各地的政府都采取行动来减缓其传播速度，医院也争相接收大量具有高度传染性和致命性的此类疾病患者。美国密歇根州安阿伯市和丹麦哥本哈根的赫勒勒和根托夫特市的泌尿科部门（通过之前存在的 CopMich 合作关系联系在一起）不得不对团队的组织、人员配备和工作量进行大规模调整。在这篇观点文章中，来自不同泌尿外科亚专业和不同职业阶段的作者反思了他们在大流行期间的经历。尽管他们的国家对 COVID-19 大流行的反应截然不同，但哥本哈根和密歇根的反应有许多相似之处，这证明了医学的普遍性特征以及团队合作、灵活性和协作的价值。
