
A Nebraska doctor was writing a history of nightmare pandemics. Then she lived one.
“Mom’s home! Look away, look away!” This was how I greeted my kids during the first half of the COVID-19 pandemic after an internal medicine clinic shift at…
Dr. Lydia Kang practices internal medicine at Nebraska Medicine and is a professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. She’s the co-author of a new book on pandemics, “Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World’s Worst Diseases” to be released in November. Kang is an author of young adult novels, historical fiction and nonfiction. Her novel, “The November Girl” won a 2018 Nebraska Book Award.
“Mom’s home! Look away, look away!” This was how I greeted my kids during the first half of the COVID-19 pandemic after an internal medicine clinic shift at…