Based on the information provided, the actual text of the article "The Things We Carry" is not available, only the title and source. The only information available is that it is an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine in the "Ahead of Print" section. No details about content, diagnoses, cases, study population or results are provided. There are no statistics, numbers, or information about whether it is a research study, case study, or essay. It is therefore not possible to create a factual content summary without conjecture or speculation. An accurate summary would require the full text of the article or at least its abstract.