Doctor Recovers From COVID-19: ‘I Feel Free’

Hanscom and his wife had been on a ski trip in Utah from March 5 to March 8, and on the afternoon of March 10, he started feeling sick.

David Hanscom is a spine surgeon whose practice focused on patients with failed back surgeries, and has since quit his practice to focus on helping people take control of chronic pain. Courtesy of David Hanscom

When David Hanscom tested positive for COVID-19, he was devastated.

“I was shocked,” said Hanscom, who lives in the Bay Area. He didn’t think the test would come back positive, and he downplayed his disappointment for his wife, who ended up testing negative. “I mean statistically, it’s just a few hundred people out of millions in California, and I was just shocked. I was pretty bummed out about it, but then I realized it actually turned out to be a gift, right?”