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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.