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Not long ago, I went back home to Florida. I'd been there during the pandemic, but mostly I stayed away from people.

This time was different. I walked into a restaurant, turned the corner, and saw some of my best friends.

People I'd only been seeing on a computer screen for close to a year, but now we're all vaccinated.

I wrapped my arms around each of them and held them as long as I could.

I didn't care if it got awkward, it just felt good to be close to people that I love.

Collectively, last year was brutal. And while all of us felt something, some people saw it up close and personal.

Today, we're going to revisit a show we first brought you back in February, one that follows a new doctor who started her training on the front lines of one of the greatest public health disasters in a century.

When I started this, good afternoon, graduates, families, faculty, and staff.

Back in June of 2020, Paloma Marin Navarez spoke at her virtual graduation ceremony at Stanford Med School.

Let's be real, class of 2020. This was absolutely not the way that we envisioned medical school ending.

Paloma is one of more than 30,000 new doctors who started medical residency last summer, heading out to hospitals and clinics across the country to learn the basics of how to be a doctor, just like they do any year.

Except now, those hospitals and clinics were being overrun with the virus.

This is a lot of pressure on you, and I will be the first to admit that this is scary.

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