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“I focus like a laser.”

I haven’t had a day off in 20 months. There are people out there—particularly the nurses and physicians and respiratory therapists—who are doing the same thing, only in the trenches. So I’m not complaining. But it is thoroughly unusual to be working 15 hours a day at minimum, 20 months in a row.

Two years ago, [my job involved] meeting with my laboratory, making rounds, seeing patients, going to conferences, traveling to give

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