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- And the summer of
2020 was really hard.

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(soft tense music)

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We were all, I think,
feeling isolated and stunned.

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When we finally started talking
about the issues of race,

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and I kept waiting for
something to happen,

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and nothing seemed
to be developing,

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specifically for
healthcare professionals,

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and so I talked to
our whole department,

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and the medical students
and the residents

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I worked with, we
decided to partner

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with White Coats
for Black Lives,

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and to organize our own rally.

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Safety was at the
utmost importance

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for all of us,
because we didn't want

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to take ourselves out of
the essential workforce,

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and so we decided
that a silent sit-in

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would probably be the most safe.

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It felt really
good for all of us,

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to be there, and to
be there in force,

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and to have our voice heard,

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and for us to come
together like that.

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I think messaging and
witnessing are important,

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but only up to a
point, and systems

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are very, very hard to change.

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At some point, you can't
spend all your energy

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just messaging, and witnessing,

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and demonstrating
and protesting,

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you have to really
transform that into action.

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But I think at key moments,

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when everybody has this
need to come together

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for our message, it
serves that purpose.

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So it felt like a
good starting point.