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cord-324345-j43rpvwk	Leong, Hoe Nam	SARS – My personal battle	2010-11-19		.txt	text/plain	3111	219	70	I vividly remember the time when I first saw the index patient with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Singapore. The index patient was admitted to Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) on Saturday, (1st March 2003), and an infectious disease consult was sought on the following Monday. It was an exceedingly busy day for me as I had to attend to new referrals, run an outpatient clinic, and subsequently draft a clinical summary of these two patients by the early evening. Eventually, the patient's fever defervesced on day 14 of illness. I wasn't scheduled to perform the ward round that day, but I returned to visit the patient that Sunday morning. My wife and I telephoned a colleague in Singapore and we concurred to have a full blood count test done at the clinic the next day. My wife eventually joined me when she developed fever at the end of the second day of arrival. With that news, my days as a patient in isolation continued.	./cache/cord-324345-j43rpvwk.txt	./txt/cord-324345-j43rpvwk.txt