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On “Health Care Heroes”

I am a first-year internal medicine resident in New York City, working on the front lines since the beginning of this pandemic.

People cheer us for putting our lives on the line, but in reality, we don’t have much choice. We don’t voluntarily come into work everyday knowing we will be unprotected. We risk our lives, or we risk our livelihoods.

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