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Is it safe to visit your mother on Mother's Day? A doctor offers a decision checklist

  • Written by Claudia Finkelstein, Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Michigan State University
Many Mother's Day visits this year will take place by video chats, as people put safety first.Stockwars/Shutterstock.com

As a physician, mother, daughter and socially responsible human, I’m finding Mother’s Day to be complicated for me this year, as it is for millions. Questions of whether and how to see my adult children and my own...

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