He was a command physician at the Pentagon on 9/11 and then in charge of treating victims of the anthrax bioterrorism attacks. Now Dr. Thom Mayer is the chief doctor for NFL players trying to protect them from the coronavirus.
There was a red phone in the communications center at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Virginia, just outside of Washington. It only rang when the hospital needed to prepare for an imminent crisis. Nobody ever wanted that red phone to ring.
It rang on a clear day 19 years ago, when everyone in the room was already glued to the scary news on television. Heads swiveled to Dr. Thom Mayer, the mustachioed chairman of emergency medicine at Inova Fairfax on Sept. 11, 2001. “This is Dulles Tower,” Mayer was told when he answered. “We...
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