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Season 4, Episode 6: An ER Nurse—and Mother, and Wife—Works Through Crisis

It's a strange time for all of us, but only healthcare workers know the particular stresses of caring for sick people right now—and what it feels like to put themselves at risk for contracting coronavirus every day they’re at work. In our final episode this season, nurse Mary-Elizabeth Suarez records from the ER at Stanford Hospital.

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Season 4, Episode 6: An ER Nurse—and Mother, and Wife—Works Through Crisis

It's a strange time for all of us, but only healthcare workers know the particular stresses of caring for sick people right now—and what it feels like to put themselves at risk for contracting coronavirus every day they’re at work. In our final episode this season, nurse Mary-Elizabeth Suarez records from the ER at Stanford Hospital.

Listen on Apple | Stitcher | SoundCloud | GooglePlay | Spotify | PodBean

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“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence. It is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare." -Audre Lorde
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“Eventually, doctors will find a coronavirus vaccine, but black people will continue to wait, despite the futility of hope, for a cure for racism. We will live with the knowledge that a hashtag is not a vaccine for white supremacy. We live with
In our final episode of @lonelypodcast this season, Mary-Elizabeth Suárez—mother, wife, sister—reports from her job as an ER nurse at Stanford Hospital. Link to SoundCloud in bio, but listen wherever you get your podcasts. Artwork
"If you find that anxiety interferes with your ability to perform such tasks as: ordering food by delivery, parenting, getting out of bed in the morning, falling asleep at night, making a phone call, answering a phone call, reading your text mes

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