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At Mount SAC, for instance, classrooms have high-tech mannequins that can be programmed to blink, shriek and simulate a variety of medical conditions, including heart attacks, bleeding, respiratory failure — even giving birth.

Omar Fateh steadied himself before the camera and flashed a smile between heavy blinks, the weight of a nearly sleepless night tugging at his eyelids.

In the blink of an eye, farmers markets were announcing their last weekends.

They are taking on all of this and a lot more in the blink of an eye and it is far from certain it is do-able.

Away from the cameras he is loose and cheerful, but once the red light blinks, the mood changes.