STAT January 22, 2026
Their responses helped me realize that gratitude without justice is not enough
Seeing infectious disease patients at a North Carolina hospital on Christmas Day 2025 could easily make a doctor cynical.
In recent months, I walked through the Raleigh airport where a patient with measles travelled a few days before. I have watched research colleagues wind down promising work on adolescent HIV because of funding priorities shifted. I see patients in communities where the nearest rural hospital operates one bad quarter away from closure, and where families quietly ask social workers whether food assistance will still be there next month. These are the same patients that I saw over the holiday period this year at UNC Health in Chapel Hill,...
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