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1Erin N. Marcus (EMarcus@med.miami.edu) is a professor of clinical medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, in Miami, Florida. The views expressed are her own. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute this work provided the original work is properly cited, not altered, and not used for commercial purposes. See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Author disclosures are available online in the article's supplemental materials.
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Medical trainees in Florida during Hurricane Irma learned firsthand how to fend for themselves during and after a storm.
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