The past 19 months have been filled with challenges for physicians as we've worked to navigate economic and professional challenges, all while facing a pandemic unlike any we've seen before. We've lost patients, family and neighbors to a disease that spreads too quickly and watched as our training and education are dismissed by activists hiding behind keyboards and political ideologies. In the midst of this upheaval, however, medicine has continued to move forward at sometimes an incredible pace to solve the problems created by the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of these solutions were developed in research laboratories, like the vaccines and new treatments we see today. Others, however, were borne out of necessity due to equipment shortages and the need to act. For example, when ventilators were in short supply, physicians at the front lines developed protocols and devices to ensure patients could get the oxygen they so desperately needed.
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