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AUGUST 8, 2018

The Last 11 Minutes

By Linda Wong, MD

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I was sitting in my office on a Saturday morning waiting for patients to arrive, when up pops an alert on my phone: “Ballistic missile threat inbound to Hawaii. Seek immediate shelter. This is not a drill.”

I looked at my phone again. It was flashing and making ominous, threatening alertlike sounds. It didn’t seem like another text. This was an alert.

There was a flurry of activity in my office. My staff came to the conclusion that they should first go to the