OR nurse Angela Hohn was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer as the pandemic began. By the fall, she was speaking her truth to the Georgia Senate. Read Angela's story, and learn how it dovetailed into a statewide effort to mandate use of smoke evacuators. https://t.co/YVbcTmtK4Y https://t.co/mKZhRN1zqC
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