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Flattened by the Curve
America’s healthcare workers are shouldering tremendous responsibility as they respond to an unprecedented public health crisis. Patients’ needs are overwhelming, and simple daily decisions are death-defying. Amid this, we know that medical workers are seeing and experiencing things that we all should know and remember. And we know that if we wait until this catastrophe is behind us to record it all, the precise pain and strangeness of now will be hard to conjure up again. Afterward it will look different, so we’re giving a platform for healthcare professionals to speak here and now.
If you are a healthcare worker, and you’d like to take part, please see the submission guidelines.
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May 9, 2020To All the Healthcare Workers Living On Their Own
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May 8, 2020I Breathe When You Breathe
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May 7, 2020Through the Looking Glass
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May 6, 2020A Pandemic Makes You Feel Small
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May 5, 2020A Kiwi in London: COVID Chronicles, Part I
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May 4, 2020Thank You For the Coffee
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May 1, 2020The Creepy Quiet of a Flat Curve
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April 30, 2020“Thanks for Assuming I’m Not the Faculty and That My Faculty Is Male”: Texts from Four Women ICU Physicians Across the Country Caring for COVID Patients
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April 29, 2020The Sentence That Broke Me
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April 28, 2020The Lost Future Tense
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April 27, 2020I’m a Nurse, I Have COVID-19, and They Want Me Back At Work
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April 24, 2020“If We Survive This, What Will Be Left?”: Considering a Post-COVID World from the Front Lines in NYC
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