Description
Over the course of one extraordinary year, an emergency room physician on Chicago’s South Side confronts the relentless demands of a pandemic, a violent summer, and a healthcare system stretched beyond its limits. With only minutes to assess each patient, he treats devastating injuries and urgent illnesses while witnessing the human cost of inequality in the very community where he grew up. Drawing on two decades of clinical practice and experience in health policy, he connects intimate encounters at the bedside to the larger forces shaping American medicine. Gripping and deeply compassionate, this memoir is both a vivid portrait of emergency care and a powerful call to make healthcare a foundation of social justice.
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Published Mar 22, 2022
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First Published
2022
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Emergency by Thomas Fisher.