Your nursing skills, your compassion, your physical and emotional exhaustion, your fear, your trauma. You may be in the medical profession by choice but none of you signed up for this. You are respected, appreciated, admired, valued and loved more than you know. If the world learns nothing else from this pandemic, it should learn to provide professional support for those on the front line. Doctors, nurses, paramedics, the armed forces, veterinarians et al. Before, during and after the fact. Their salaries are never adequate to seek that support when they most need it.

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