Finding the signal in the noise of recent days.
This is a time of change and turbulence in our national conversation. President Trump took office a week ago, and with this new administration has come a raft of changes. I have written over the past few months about the importance of those of us who work in health remaining nonpartisan, of making an effort to take a big-tent approach to health, of leaning into hope and optimism and of recognizing that there are reasons why President Trump was reelected and that we should try to understand and engage with them. We should be willing, always, to listen and learn, towards gaining back some of the trust we as a field have lost. We also owe any new administration a chance to act according to what it feels the American people have called on it to do. We have just had a free and fair election in which two competing visions for the country were defined and debated. One of those visions won, and Donald Trump, for all that is problematic about him, is a known quantity that Americans, of sound mind and body, decided they wanted to reelect. These are facts with which we should engage and which we should seek to understand, with an open heart and open mind.
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