Conclusion
While these changes have occurred in response to the COVID pandemic, importantly, the ultimate decisions on how to care for our head and neck patients have still been made by our collaborative head and neck program and the individual physicians delivering the care. As such, and with a more limited surge of COVID cases to date in Pittsburgh, we feel we have been able to continue to treat our HNC patients during these challenging times adequately.
The COVID-19 pandemic will likely change health care forever. The opportunity to use modern technology to diagnose, counsel, and improve health care for a spectrum of patients in more broadly distributed geographically may, at the end of the day, be the hidden benefit of this catastrophe.