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Rural emergency medicine in New Mexico: a physician’s firsthand account Recently, I was asked to write about my experience as a rural emergency physician in New Mexico. The timing was uncanny: I am in the final shifts of my first job out of my emergency medicine residency on the East Coast, having spent more than four years working in emergency departments across western rural New Mexico, primarily within the Indian Health Service. Summarizing this experience concisely feels impossible. Every emergency physician … Read more… Rural emergency medicine in New Mexico: a physician’s firsthand account Physicians and the psychological trauma of COVID-19 In April 2020, Dr. Lorna Breen, an emergency medicine physician from New York-Presbyterian Medical Center, came to the University of Virginia Medical Center, not as a physician, but as a patient. She had been working at the height of the COVID-19 epidemic in Manhattan, and was staying with her family in Charlottesville when she committed suicide. Her father described her as a hero killed by COVID-19, another casualty in the … Read more… Physicians and the psychological trauma of COVID-19