Jun 17, 2020
Dr. Lucy McBride is a Washington DC internist who graduated with
honors from Princeton University and Harvard Medical School.
Subsequently, she spent a year studying pharmacology as a Fulbright
scholar at the University of Cambridge in England, followed by
residency training at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
After several years practicing Emergency Medicine at Hopkins, she
joined Foxhall Internists in Washington DC. She has special
interests in hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, and women’s
health.
She recently came out with a daily newsletter about COVID-19 that has now gone viral. She gives advice not only about coronavirus but also keeping up your mental health during the pandemic. A lot of people are experiencing anxiety and trauma from the quarantine. Everyone is going through a state of loss, whether that be the loss of a loved one, the loss of your daily routine, the loss of your high school graduation. Though the loss can vary in degrees of heaviness, we still have to acknowledge that loss.