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- When the pandemic initially started,

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I happened to be in spring break

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with five of my seven children.

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But I started to see a lot
of posts in the communities,

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especially in the medical community

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and critical care community,

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about this pandemic and
the seriousness of it.

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We had our trip a little
bit short and came back,

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in mask and hand sanitizer,

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and I did get deployed for two months,

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since supportive COVID for the
transport isolation system.

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I've enjoyed all the people
that I get to work with,

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and the diversity of people
that I get to work with,

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the diversity of jobs
that I've gotten to do.

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As somebody who is very clinical,

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and who loves taking care
of patients and being there,

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taking care of critically
ill and sick patients.

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It has been hard to not
have that role right now,

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at a time when that's what
I've really wanted to do,

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I've had to live
vicariously through others.

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The other thing that I've been working on

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is the DoD COVID-19
Practice Management Guide.

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We've now put together six publications

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with over 175 contributors
in over 150 pages.

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So that document has been
designed to help clinicians

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and hospital leaders to try
to plan for the pandemic.

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I know that if there are
things that I'm working on,

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that can improve things for other people

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and make things easier for
those on the front line.

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But I do feel like I'm able
to at least do something

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to make it better for
others that are there

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and to try to take REX practices
from around the country

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and around the different MTS

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and put those together
in a singular document

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to help people.

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My name is Lieutenant Colonel Rene Mateus.

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I'm a pediatric intensivist

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in the Graduate Medical
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at Brooke Army Medical Center.

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