{"id":8295,"date":"2017-01-29T22:15:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T03:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/?p=8295"},"modified":"2019-11-02T06:54:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T10:54:09","slug":"weekend-paranoia-anger-fear-release-side-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/weekend-paranoia-anger-fear-release-side-globe\/2017\/01\/29\/","title":{"rendered":"In A Weekend of Paranoia and Anger and Fear, Some Release From the Other Side of the Globe"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This was not\u00a0a happy or comfortable weekend for ID doctors, given our predilection for inclusiveness, non-judgmental care, global health, and that “safety net” idea that seems to us such an intrinsic part of being a good\u00a0doctor.<\/a><\/p>\n

Exclusion of foreigners?\u00a0Why, we ask, would you do that? People from other countries\u00a0are our friends, our colleagues, and our patients. Many of our favorite<\/em> patients, I might add, since they might bring with them exotic, challenging, and treatable problems that are right up our alley.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, to overstate the obvious, most\u00a0of us living here in the USA are not that<\/em> far removed from immigration ourselves.<\/p>\n

Fidencio Saldana — he’s a cardiologist, the Dean of Students at Harvard Medical School, and the child of Mexican immigrants — gave medical Grand Rounds at our hospital recently.<\/p>\n

He recounted what it was like being a medical student here, and how out of place he sometimes felt. He then movingly described how was made to feel welcome by hearing from one of our senior doctors, Marshall Wolf:<\/p>\n

Hey relax. My parents were immigrants too. You belong here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That was two weeks ago, a brief aside made at a lecture, yet I have thought of it frequently since, especially this weekend.<\/p>\n

And this morning, glum and discouraged by recent\u00a0events, I\u00a0needed some distraction.<\/p>\n

So I turned on the television at 6AM and watched two of the most extraordinary\u00a0athletes in the world, Roger Federer of Switzerland and Rafael Nadal of Spain, play the fifth and deciding\u00a0set of tennis at the Australian Open in Melbourne, Australia.<\/p>\n

The crowd was cheering, and hanging\u00a0on every point, and no doubt millions of others all over the world were doing what I was doing — watching and marveling and feeling a sense of global togetherness for this extraordinary\u00a0event.<\/p>\n

And here’s the best part. After Federer won the match, a grueling 5-set affair that lasted over 3 hours, he graciously said:<\/p>\n

Tennis is a tough sport, there are no draws. But if there was I\u2019d be happy to share it with Rafa tonight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Share.<\/em>\u00a0No gloating. No petty rivalries. No cheating. No distortion of facts. These are the best players in the world, competing at the highest level for hours, and they can still get along like friends even in the most intense setting imaginable.<\/p>\n

You got that?<\/p>\n

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This was not\u00a0a happy or comfortable weekend for ID doctors, given our predilection for inclusiveness, non-judgmental care, global health, and that “safety net” idea that seems to us such an intrinsic part of being a good\u00a0doctor. Exclusion of foreigners?\u00a0Why, we ask, would you do that? People from other countries\u00a0are our friends, our colleagues, and our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}