Helen T. D’Couto
Cognoscenti contributor
Helen T. D’Couto is an attending physician in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Georgetown University Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. She specializes in interstitial lung disease and sarcoid and has research interests in epidemiology and health disparities in pulmonary and critical care medicine.
Recently published
My patients shouldn’t have to endure ‘air hunger’
As physicians we take an oath to do no harm, yet are trapped providing care in a system that leaves patients confined and at risk, writes Helen T. D’Couto, a...
Forcing my COVID patients to die alone is inhumane — and unnecessary
My patients and their families say goodbye on video screens, writes Helen T. D'Couto. Hands reach out to each other, millimeters apart on the tablet but cruelly, never able to...