Ask your doctors how they are doing. Please.

It’s Tuesday around 9 a.m., and I, a pediatric ear, nose, and throat surgeon on my third or fourth patient at a satellite clinic an hour away from home when the abdominal pain started. It feels as if someone is repeatedly stabbing a knife, and twisting it around, right below my breastbone.

I barely got through that encounter, then moved to the next patient. It will stop, it has to. There were 14 …

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