touching, deep twitter account by Jewish MD treating Covid pt covered with swastikas

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17. all these health care workers are going to need treatment for PTSD.

I don't see how they can emerge unscathed. It makes me think of The Professor And the Madman by Simon Winchester. It's a story about the founding of the OED, but it's also about the first person acquitted of murder by reason of insanity. He had been an Army surgeon during the American Civil War. Many of his patients were Irish immigrants who required amputation without anesthesia. Their screams haunted him for the rest of his life. Today's physicians don't face the same issues as he did, but their experiences must be so traumatic. They have already earned their place in heaven.