“Doctors, nurses, first responders, hospital staff, and essential workers, all over the world, represent the frontline in the global war on COVID-19. In recent weeks, television networks, newspaper columns, and social media have been flooded with reports from health care professionals who are finding themselves overwhelmed with the sheer numbers of sick patients and fears about medical equipment shortages, including protective personal equipment. Their stories tell not only of their extreme exposure to the pandemic, in the course of their professional duties but of a painful struggle to reconcile their need to take care of their sick patients with fears for their own health, the health of their colleagues and loved ones…“