The COVID-19 pandemic produces anxiety sorrow and exhaustion for many, including those who work in medicine.
It also produces hope and inspiration when those medical personnel see the public uniting with social distancing, reduced activity and travel, working from home and hand-washing.
"It has been really heart-warming to see everybody taking care of each other, checking in on people maybe you wouldn't have in the past," said Lawson Montgomery, a former Wichita State hurdler and a resident physician at University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City. "It's a hard thing to do, to ask people to stop what they're doing.