“Does this ever get better, Doc? Does this ever go away?"
The questions were being put to me by one of my patients in the World Trade Center Monitoring Program, a comprehensive health program set up for first responders – the law enforcement officers, emergency response teams and volunteer citizens who were first on the scene on 9/11 and who were exposed to the horror of the day (and...
9/11 first responders find respite
Every patient in the World Trade Center Monitoring Program, a comprehensive health program set up for first responders to the 9/11 terror attacks, has their own story and their own form of suffering. As their doctor, I have the opportunity to understand the effect of the attacks in a way few Muslims do.
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