Denise Harrison was working at Bellevue Hospital in New York City on September 11, 2001. The hospital had cleared the emergency room, anticipating a massive influx of patients after the terrorist attack at the World Trade Center, she says. “But it never really happened.”
“We had more doctors there than patients,” Harrison says. “We knew why. That was saddening.” Thousands died on September 11, when fires burned and buildings fell.
But for hundreds of thousands more who responded to the disasters, worked in the recovery or cleanup, or lived near ground zero, that day and its toxic aftermath continue to reverberate.
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