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Meet the Doctor Who Went Anonymous to Say What the Rest of Us Can't: The Story of Dr. Orange
Dr. Orange is a primary care physician, one year out of residency, practicing somewhere in the United States at a health system she can't name. She posts on TikTok as a talking orange, with her face obscured and her voice altered, because showing up as herself would cost her too much. Her employer might find out. Her patients might lose confidence in her. And after years of training and too much debt, she cannot afford either.
What she says from behind that mask is not radical. It is what physicians say to each other in workrooms, in parking lots, in group texts that will never see the light…
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