gadda, who is a surgeon at tacoma general hospital in washington state. we played that clip for him on the show tonight and it hit a nerve. we got a big reaction about the foot an we showed. he's a surgeon that something i can barely say. he's an esophogial surgeon. he specializes in robotic surgery, which is impressive on the face of it. but consider too how he got to this point. as a child, he and his parents and brother were refugees. they fled kuwait during the iraqi invasion and later emigrated to the u.s., whereupon he grew up to become an esophogial robotic surgeon. now he can say he personally survived becoming infected with covid-19. he got sick, he recovered. and as soon as he was recovered and cleared to get back to work, he went back to the hospital, right back to the frontlines. >> here i am, back to work after covid-19. for my patients out there, for the people with fear, know that to matter what happens, we never work from home. the lights are always on. babies are being born. bones are being set. this hospital, this profession, we're in a

gadda and the irish prime minister. dr. ajit rai who is an a anesthesiologist in california but he's in new york now because he volunteered to come do time in a front line new york city hospital. >> here in new york, we are in full blown crisis mode and the city is sinking, so although first responders, and myself, i'm just one person, but i believe that we can still be a life vest for an overburdened health system to help it remain afloat and what has been so surprising to me is that the resource depletion i'm seeing here in one the wealthiest cities in the world reminds me a lot about the limitations i experienced when i was providing medical care for war-wounded refugees in the middle east, working for doctors without borders. and you know, everyone in the country is so fixated on ppe shortages and ventilator shortages, but none of that even matters if you don't have the medical personnel to turn those machines on. so for doctors and nurses around the country who are just waiting, time is now when we need you. some clini

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