Meeta Shah knocks on the door before entering a room to check on a patient at the Department of Emergency Medicine at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago on Jan. 25, 2021. - Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune/Chicago Tribune/TNS
CHICAGO – Chicago emergency room doctor Meeta Shah wiped down her face shield and stethoscope as she rushed from one patient to the next, some of them very sick with COVID-19, some of them dying. At home, she worried about how to keep her husband — also an ER doctor — and her two young children safe from the virus: Shower at work? Stop hugging the kids? And then there were the challenges of supervising her children’s remote learning, of a sudden gap in child care, of work emails that stretched past midnight. “It just really started to feel like a lot. It felt like my mind was loud, all the wor...
