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Stress-weary doctors soldier on in COVID-19 marathon

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Dr. Richard Walker, a seasoned veteran of emergency medicine and student of history, instinctively sensed what horrors lay ahead one day in late February when a senior member of his team casually said: “You’re about to find out why your grandparents washed and saved tin foil.” As head of emergency services, Walker has seen every sort of human trauma wheeled into the emergency rooms at both Methodist University and Regional One Health. He’s trained to respond to the utter collapse of life as we know it through earthquake, massive plane crash, even chemical warfare… Clay Jackson, assistant professor at University of Tennessee Health Science Center and physician at West Cancer Clinic and Methodist Medical Group-Primary Care, says people cry more at work now.

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