From the piece linked in my post: I asked a patient of mine how he makes it through the day. “I don’t know,” said a 50-year-old man originally from El Salvador. “I try to read. To play games. I try not to look at the terrible news about people getting kidnapped.” So says the person who might be kidnapped himself. “I might be fooling myself,” he said, “but I want to look away to where there’s hope.”