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To the Editor: I have a private practice, with two other family physicians, in an office in the financial district of lower Manhattan, five blocks (300 m) from the site of the World Trade Center. Most of our patients work or live in lower Manhattan, including many who worked in the World Trade Center or its vicinity. We have learned of the deaths of at least four of our patients who were trapped in the collapse of the World Trade Center towers on September 11.

At the time of the attacks, our office had just opened for the day. (I . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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