“Look, you are not going to be touching Ebola patients,” he said. “But of course it is risky.” When he had traveled to Guinea a few weeks before, he recalled listening to his interpreter translating and suddenly thinking, “Wait, as he is speaking inches from me, microscopic specks of his saliva could be entering my ear right now. This is not good!” Still, he urged me not to cancel. I also called my mother, who had gotten educated on Ebola since her initial negative reaction. She now offered unflinching encouragement, ending our call by saying, “I wish I could come.” With her vote of
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