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Dr Thomas Fisher is a man of color who writes passionately about his life as an emergency medicine physician in Chicago. He goes home each night after his shift and writes letters (that he never mails) to his many patients about the care that they received by him. He apologizes for what he sees as the lack of health equality for all. He apologizes for the poverty that his patients live in. He apologizes because he recognizes that just because a person is living in poverty does not mean that they should receive less than optimal healthcare. One might go into this book thinking that the emergency that he writes about takes place in the E.R only. But readers will come away asking themselves what is the real emergency. The right to education, employment, community safety affects how well and how long we live. So what is the real emergency?
Award winning author Ta-Nehisi Coates writes the forward for this moving book which will bring much attention.
* I read an advance copy and was not compensated.
Award winning author Ta-Nehisi Coates writes the forward for this moving book which will bring much attention.
* I read an advance copy and was not compensated.
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This story of the first year of Covid in a Chicago emergency department is poignant and also yields scathing critiques of the inequities of the American health care system.
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