Here’s a moving account of one of the most trying crisis communication roles imaginable — functioning as a doctor caring for an Ebola patient at a U.S. Hospital. Dr. Angela Hewlett in The Washington Post recounts her experiences caring for her patient, including media interviews, at a biocontainment unit at the Nebraska Medical Center. 

All went well over a three-week span, including relationships with the Nebraska media, and Dr. Hewlett is now anticipating a second Ebola patient — “After all,” she says, “just like I told my children: I am a doctor and I take care of sick people.”