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Boone Hospital Center Registered Nurse Phyliss Golden performs a nasopharyngeal swab on a person at the Boone Hospital Center Mobile Health Unit located in the parking lot near Anthony and Ann Streets. [DON SHRUBSHELL/TRIBUNE]
WE CAN BE
heroes
Many stepped up for Our Town during pandemic
BY RUDI KELLER | Columbia Daily Tribune
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very year, throngs cheer athletic heroics on the gridiron in Memorial Stadium at the University of Missouri. Thousands more give throat to their appreciation of a hot guitar lick laid down during the Roots N Blues festival. But not this year. This is a year to cheer those who do their jobs quietly, out of the view of most and without a thought to who notices or not.
"The popular saying 'not all heroes wear capes' applies to these people who wear scrubs and white coats, as well as the people who provide food and housekeeping services to our patients," Stephen Keithahn, specialist in internal medicine pediatrics and chief wellness officer for MU Health Care wrote in April about health care workers. And in May, Patricia Hall, medical director of Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital, echoed that sentiment.
