{"id":168158,"date":"2025-09-25T13:08:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T13:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/168158\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T13:08:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T13:08:21","slug":"some-doctors-swear-blind-it-does-not-exist-why-this-leading-specialist-is-still-focused-on-long-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/168158\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Some doctors swear blind it does not exist&#8217;: Why this leading specialist is still focused on long COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor Anthony Byrne gets that some doctors are sick of COVID-19 and its sequelae.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople probably have a bit of PTSD about it,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt changed so many facets of everyone\u2019s life that lots of people want to put that behind them, in the community, the media and, to some degree, medically.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it was also an amazing opportunity to learn about a new illness and discover, in real time, how to investigate and manage it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u00d7<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSign in\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"message adg-password-reset\">\n\t\t\t\tIf this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"adg-reset_password_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ausdoc.com.au\/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here.<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associate Professor Anthony Byrne gets that some doctors are sick of COVID-19 and its sequelae. \u201cPeople probably have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[64,63,137,81906,44,4086],"class_list":{"0":"post-168158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-long-covid","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-respiratory"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}