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Thanks for doing it. I remember when I was a Neurosurgery Resident we started seeing all these middle aged guys come in with cerebral toxo and no one knew what it was. It was clearly contagious. I remember one guy whose mother wouldn’t go in his room without gloves. Before we even started isolating them. Nurses asked me if I wasn’t concerned about getting it in the OR. It hadn’t really even occurred to me and I remember thinking, “it’s the job”. You asked for it. How many doctors died from malaria? That was my attitude all along. It’s a privilege.

Now I’m retired I wonder, though. Maybe I should have thought about my family a little more. Maybe I was just lucky I got away with it. You are taking risks. There’s one doctor on a vent right now over it. Your perspective changes over time, maybe.