and recovered, although 
only one family member 
tested positive for the virus. 
They self-quarantined for 
three weeks. 
“We had sore throats, 
fatigue and fevers, but no 
cough,” he says. “We all had 
the same symptoms. Some 
people have a mild case.”
At the hospital, Willens 
sees the more severe coro-
navirus cases. While he 
believes he may now be 
immune to the virus, he 
still suits up, wearing a clear 
face shield, mask, gown and 
gloves to be safe. He works 
with a team of residents 
seeing patients on a general 
medicine ward; some have 
pneumonia, some have suf-
fered heart failure. 
“It’
s stressful. Most diseas-
es we deal with don’
t have 
the high risk of mortality 
this has,” he says. “The fear 
will be one of the most 
lasting effects COVID-19 
will have on our world. It’
s 
affected every single aspect 
of our lives.” 
Still, he says, “This is why 
I became a doctor, to serve. 
And it’
s an honor to serve at 
a time of crisis like this.”
Dr. Robert Cohen is an ER 
physician with Independent 
Emergency Physicians, a 
physician-owned practice 
that staffs four local hos-
pitals and runs two urgent 
care centers. He works at 
Providence in Southfield 
and Novi and St. Joseph 
Mercy Oakland Hospital in 
Pontiac. 
Cohen worries about 
inadvertently bringing the 
virus home and sleeps in a 
guest room as a precaution 
to protect his wife, Elyse, 
and children Ava, 13, and 

Ryan, 10. The family got a 
puppy as a “happy distrac-
tion.”
“When I leave the hos-
pital, I change clothes, so I 
come home in fresh clothes, 
but I take them off immedi-
ately and shower immediate-
ly,” he says. “My clothes get 
washed right away. I keep 
my shoes in the garage.”
He says the most chal-
lenging thing about 
COVID-19 is that there is 
no treatment. But, Cohen 
says, he and the rest of the 
medical staff are doing 
everything they’
re trained 
to do. While he’
s on the 
front lines where personal 
protective equipment (PPE) 
is in short supply, his wife 
collects thousands of donat-
ed masks, gowns, medical 
gloves, hand sanitizer and 
more. They are grateful for 
the outpouring of support.
“I feel like there are a lot 
of things I can’
t control, 
and collecting gear is one 
thing I can do to help,” Elyse 
Cohen says. “This was one 
of my biggest fears for his 
profession — a pandemic 
or bioterrorism. I tell my 
kids every day their dad is a 
hero.” 

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