My Op-Ed in the Herald
I still can't believe this happened - these words were rolling around in my head, down my fingers, in my steam-of-consciousness word doc journal and then ended up in the city's new big newspaper, our local radio channel, on national television? In the blink of an eye, my private pain had been seen by those I love and by strangers across the country alike. The Herald essay: https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article253685043.html The MSNBC interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfNEUSc__4M The NPR interview: https://www.wlrn.org/2021-08-27/doctors-ask-public-to-get-covid-vaccine-the-red-hot-real-estate-market-and-haiti-earthquake-recovery From the insta post: This week has been a whirlwind. Since residency started, I’ve wrestled with some big questions. One of them has been - is there a way to stay soft when the work is so hard? How do I keep an open heart when I see such concentrated pain and suffering every day? I wrote this essay three weeks ago to grieve and
