One ER Doc’s Journey Through the Pandemic — and the Health Care System
Thomas Fisher is an emergency room doc in Chicago. His book, The Emergency, is an up-close chronicle of the COVID pandemic’s first year in his South Side ER.
It also zooms out to tell the story of his journey as a doctor: How his upbringing on the South Side fueled his desire to become a doctor. And how the realities and inequities of American health care limited his ability to help.
He details how the failures of the American health care system — and the racial inequities it perpetuates — leave health care workers with a profound sense of moral injury.
“Over time, when you have this conflict…
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