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How Should Surgeons Define "Urgent" During A Global Pandemic?11:20
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April 29, 2020

Jamie Bologna
Tiziana Dearing

A health care worker outside Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston looks to cross Huntington Avenue. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

How should doctors and surgeons define "urgent" during a global pandemic? Dr. Alessandra Colaianni, a chief resident in otolaryngology and head-and-neck surgery at Harvard Medical School, asks that in the New Yorker, and she joins us.

This segment aired on April 29, 2020.

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How Should Surgeons Define "Urgent" During A Global Pandemic?11:20
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