Houston medical workers share their tales from the front line Health care workers have experienced a long, stressful year as COVID-19 swept across the country and sickened hundreds of thousands of people in Houston. On the job this year, they’ve felt grief and sorrow, anxiety and fear, and as a vaccine becomes available to them and their colleagues, hope and joy. Three Houston medical professionals shared their tales from the front line. These are their words, edited for space and clarity. Sara Andrabi, emergency medicine doctor and assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine on Dec. 17, in Houston. (Marie D. De Jesús, Staff Photographer | Houston Chronicle)