>> Aidan Gardiner, The New York Times
Published: 13 Mar 2021 10:59 AM BdST
Updated: 13 Mar 2021 11:01 AM BdST
Gabrielle Dawn Luna, who followed her father into emergency nursing, sits for a portrait at her home in Woodbridge, NJ, on Jan 31, 2021. She was the last person to hold her father's hand when he died of COVID-19 in April at her hospital in Teaneck, NJ (Calla Kessler/The New York Times)
Gabrielle Dawn Luna sees her father in every patient she treats.
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As an emergency room nurse in the same hospital where her father lay dying of COVID last March, Luna knows firsthand what it is like for a family to hang on to every new piece of information. She has become acutely aware of the need to take extra time in explaining developments to a patient’s relatives who are often desperate for updates.