What have family doctors being doing for the past six months? A thread. This week lots of patients keep asking if it’s nice to be back at work. They’re shocked when I tell them we never closed, not even for a day. 1/ PPE was scarce and we knew very little about COVID. We scrambled to develop policies and procedures after hours, to install plexiglass and source more masks. We debated who to mask and when. We voraciously devoured every communication from public health. 2/