Dr. Angela Butler-Rice

Professional Title: Pediatrician & Owner

Class Year: 1993

Major: Chemical Engineering

Location: Decatur, GA

Medical Experience: 20 years

Please share your experience working with patients diagnosed with COVID-19

As a pediatrician during the coronavirus pandemic, I wear a surgical mask and gloves daily. I undress before entering my home, shower before interacting with family, and wash work clothes immediately even if full PPE is worn. Our staff cleans and washes their hands constantly. We have limited patient scheduling to a pre-screening questionnaire and appointments only. Patients with negative screening results are scheduled for examination one family at a time. People with positive screening results are advised to shelter in place and referred to the COVID-19 testing facility. Waiting for the results is quite an anxiety-producing for staff and patient families. We always worry that we may have already been exposed. We feel that it is our duty to provide safe, pediatric healthcare even though we daily put our own lives and families at risk. Minority communities have become an essential workforce. My staff and I get up every day to fight for and represent our community because we are in this together and stronger together.

What advice would you give to people during this pandemic?

  • Stay prayerful and patient
  • Stay healthy by living a healthy lifestyle (good nutrition, exercise, vitamins, rest, masks, handwashing)
  • Tell and show your loved ones that you love them
  • Stay home when you can and practice social distancing in public
  • Use downtime to positively rebuild your brand, complete unfinished tasks, and repair broken relationships
  • Take time to smell the roses

9 thoughts on “Dr. Angela Butler-Rice”

  2. Stay safe on the front line, and thanks for all the work that you do. You sound just as positive now as you were in school. Aggie Pride! Eddie Hall, EE, ’93

  3. Thank you for your service Dr. Rice you continue to stay safe. Your a like part of my family continue doing what God has put you here to do. You are simply amazing God bless you and keep you and your family.

  5. What a great article on Angela! Thank you Angela for the selfless work that you do for others! Everyday at 7pm in NYC, we celebrate and thank those medical workers on the front line, for all that they do. The thank you stretches well beyond NYC.

  6. Sooooo amazingly proud of you and your committment to your patients, family and community!

  7. Soror Angela,

    Your beautiful, kind, and loving spirit is beaming as I read this article just as it did when we were on campus 20 years ago. You have always displayed positivity! I admire and commend you for your work on the front lines of this pandemic. Thank you and your staff for caring and serving the people, especially the essential workers, the black and brown who are impacted most!
    #AggiePride #WhereDreamersBecome Achievers#AggiesDo
    Sisterly

  8. Your courage in the face of this virus is a source of great Aggie Pride. I am so grateful for your dedication and compassion. Stay strong and know that your work is deeply appreciated.

  9. Cousin Angela, Congratulations, on your recogniton article. You are an amazing womam, doctor, mother, cousin, daughter, mother and wife. It’s nice to know that the world can see what a fantastic person you are. Stay safe. We are so pepud of yoy. You give us strength.

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