A review by librarysue
The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER by Thomas Fisher

4.0

I liked this one a whole lot. A Black emergency room physician alternates chapters describing the patients he sees with chapters examining the state of health care in the U.S. He is a hard working and compassionate doctor but can't even guarantee his own mother the sort of quality care he feels she deserves at his South-side Chicago hospital.. He concludes "I know that there cannot be justice in health or healthcare until there is justice in society." A very sobering look at a serious problem.