[Via New York Magazine - Read this absolutely harrowing, and sad, account of Dr. Ramon Torres - a hero on the front lines against the epidemic for over a decade. It was when the war began to be won that he got lost. This should be required reading for all!]It was a frigid morning last December, and the disheveled man standing before Judge James Gibbons had made his way to the second floor of 100 Centre Street in a thin nylon windbreaker, ill-fitting designer jeans, and a pair of torn jackboots—something out of an old S&M catalogue—which he had accessorized with a wide leather cuff snapped on his wrist. At first he was trembling, as if from the cold. Then the trembling subsided, and his eyelids fell. Dr. Ramon A. “Gabriel” Torres, a near-legendary doctor in the fight against AIDS, had fallen asleep on his feet.
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> by David France
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This is kind of ridiculous. Any group of doctors is going to have a number of human beings in the group. Some of them will suffer all the consequences of afflicting other groups.
So geriatric doctors look forward to curing their patients of old age some day?
thank you for posting this article. it reads incredibly bittersweet and is a tale that is not prevalent but not at all uncommon. the methods that we have used to deal with perhaps may be ptsd are not holistic, but hold an immediacy in their effectiveness.
ReplyDeleteagain. thank you..