title: SARS--my personal battle.
abstract: It isn't every day that a doctor becomes a patient. It is more peculiar when it occurs with an unknown mysterious epidemic respiratory illness that kills. Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) gripped the world in 2003, spreading via air-links and throwing the global economy into disarray. As a practicing physician in Singapore, one of the first countries affected, I describe my first-hand account of my battle with this illness, how I acquired this illness in Singapore, and eventually quarantine in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases, Singapore General Hospital, Outram Road, Singapore. Hoe_nam@yahoo.com.sg
authors.forename: Hoe Nam
authors.initials: HN
authors.lastname: Leong
authors.forename: Hong Huay
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Lim
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000401:Aircraft; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009518:New York; D010361:Patients / Q000523:psychology; D010820:Physicians / Q000523:psychology; D045473:Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus; D045169:Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000523:psychology*; D012846:Singapore; D014195:Travel