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Linda Nguyen is a medical student who blogs at Medium.

Loved ones are hospitalized and alone during COVID

Linda Nguyen
Education
March 12, 2021

This has been a very difficult year. COVID-19 has rampaged the country, worked hospitals to their breaking point, torn families apart, and kept families apart. The grief seems never-ending.

At the beginning of 2020, we watched in horror at the destruction in Wuhan, China, and Italy. We could not fathom what was happening over there, with mandatory quarantines, over-filled hospitals, freezer trucks, and body bags because of insurmountable casualties. Global air …

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Loved ones are hospitalized and alone during COVID

Dealing with the pressures of learning as a physician-in-training

Linda Nguyen
Education
July 22, 2019

The other day, I happened across a YouTube video called the “Try Not to Look Away Challenge.” There were some obvious video clips, such as a person vomiting, a spider, and a spooky video game. What struck me was a clip from a movie in which a middle-aged woman forgets where the restroom in her house is located. After letting her husband know that she was headed to the restroom, …

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