Some Things I’ve Learned in the 20 Years Since 9/11
Reflections from a disaster mental health volunteer
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6 min readSep 12, 2021
On 9/11, I was the Chief Resident working in the Psychiatric Emergency Department at Mount Sinai Hospital. Interrupting our discussion of how to best care for the patients with us from the prior evening, we watched the news while first one and then the second tower were struck. The prior…
