Dr. James Black runs emergency services for the local hospital system in Albany, GA. When the pandemic began, he didn't expect that his tight-knit hometown would become one of the American epicenters of the disease. But then it did. And Dr. Black found himself treating friends and neighbors in the ER. He talks about the challenges of that and how it propels him forward, the music getting him through, and the dream vacation that's now on the backburner.

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