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He&#8217;s now a third-year internal medicine resident at\u00a0LAC+USC Medical Center. He published a <a href=\"https:\/\/alexander-o-gong.medium.com\/its-11-pm-on-new-year-s-eve-8335d338dc9\">post on Medium<\/a> recently about a harrowing New Year&#8217;s Eve dealing with the COVID-19 holiday surge in Los Angeles.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Gong recounts the ordeal of a patient he calls Mr. A, and Gong&#8217;s attempts to help him:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div><em>My Spanish has never been the best, but I have grown more comfortable in my three years working at the County hospital where the majority of patients are Spanish-speaking. He nods deliberately. \u201cAm I getting better?\u201d he asks. I must have mispronounced the word \u201cworse\u201d in my attempts at Spanish. I shake my head with disappointment. \u201cI\u2019m really sorry that this is happening,\u201d I look him straight in the eye. Our gazes lock, and the oxygen machines continue their humming.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/alexander-o-gong.medium.com\/its-11-pm-on-new-year-s-eve-8335d338dc9\">whole post\u00a0<\/a>and leave a comment there, or follow Gong on Medium.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":3857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[169,78],"class_list":["post-3855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","tag-latest","tag-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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