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Opinion: I’ve been cared for by dozens of clinicians in nearly 20 years. I’m in awe of their work on Covid-19

Appreciation from a distance doesn’t magically produce the supplies that health care workers desperately need right now. But I hope they know how grateful we are for them.
Hospital clinicians get into their protective equipment before testing patients for Covid-19 at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Mass.

To health care workers on the front lines: thank you.

As a rare disease patient who has interacted with dozens of health care workers in the last 17 years, I have always been in awe of your profession. But I want to thank you again now for your care, your compassion, your courage, and your selflessness, which we can see so clearly in this dark hour.

Like the rest of the world, I can’t take my eyes off of

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