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one person has healed the whole
world,'" she noted. "I kind of got into
medicine because of that."
Goldstein, who has been based in
Atlanta since 1993, has spent most of
her careei working on hepatitis out-
breaks in the U.S. and developing
countries, including Sri Lanka, the
Republic of Georgia, Kenya and
Uzbekistan. She also took a year off
from the CDC to work with Doctors
Without Borders in a remote region of
Ethiopia. But she turned down an
opportunity to work with Afghan
refugees in Pakistan this fall because of
concerns for her personal safety.
"I had three concerns — I'm an
American, I'm a woman and I'm
Jewish," she said. "I decided all three
of those things might compromise
how effective I would be over there.
That was a first — I've never hesitated
to go anywhere because of who I am."
Instead Goldstein was drafted to
work on the New jersey anthrax
response team. Her job was to follow
up with people who might have been
exposed, dispense antibiotics and try
to calm fears, even as she and her col-
leagues struggled to understand the
science behind their work.
While Goldstein considers herself a
Jew "mainly culturally," she says she
attended Yom Kippur services in
September "for the first time in . . . I
can't even remember."
She says she "had a sense of wanting
to be with people and to connect. I
think what happened this fall has
made me spend more time thinking
about what does being Jewish mean to
me, and why don't I go to temple. I'm
still turning it over."
Rachel Avchen, meanwhile, says she
will never forget the daily assault on
her senses as she worked in lower
Manhattan — the plaintive notes and
photographic glimpses into the shat-
tered lives of strangers; hearing people
desperately describing tattoos and
birthmarks to help identify all, or
part, of a lost loved one; the constant
stream of people going in and out of
the morgue building; the impromptu
candlelight vigils with weary, shell-
shocked people tentatively singing
American anthems; sweet notes with
children's handprints on paper plates,
posted to offer hope and comfort.
All of these things brought her to
tears, and all are seared in her mind.
Avchen wore her American flag pin
constantly after she left for New. York
City, until it was lost. Now, she has
placed the chai back on her neck
chain, and she wears it often. She has
no plans to take it off again. ❑

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