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Laddar... The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ERav Thomas Fisher
   Ingen/inga Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken.   ) quondame | Jun 20, 2022 |  I was amused when he said he was a nonpracticing agnostic. The quote: “I PREPARE FOR MY shift with gospel music. I’m a nonpracticing agnostic, but today the gospel themes of hope, sacrifice, and community give me comfort.” I admired this doctor’s honesty and appreciated his taking social and cultural factors into account when looking at the health status of individuals. He writes about the connection between money and health care and about the inequities in health care. I acknowledge his medical and social activism credentials. He’s also a good writer. I loved how he wrote and structured this book. I especially enjoyed his “letter to” various patients and an intern, a medical trainer, his mother. I’d like to think that all doctors are this thoughtful about their work and about society’s ills. I appreciated him spelling out exactly why doctors, ERs, hospitals aren’t always able to do their best by patients, even when their hearts are in the right place. This is a sobering account and I can’t say it made me feel optimistic about things but the author’s intentions and work kept me from feeling too, too depressed. We have a lot of work to do with societal racism, providing good health care to all, and a lot of discussions should be had. Whether or not it’s “enough” we can definitely do more and need to do better. The author is good at humanizing his patents and I ended up caring about everyone he wrote about, including himself. The patients, colleagues, family members, and people in the news, and everyone else. 4-1/2 stars ( ) Lisa2013 | May 24, 2022 | There are so many facts and an abundance of personal perspectives about what works and what doesn’t work in America's healthcare and hospital policies. And some perplexing views on injustice and partiality showed prospective patients/clients. The author puts you in his shoes as he strives to make the best medical evaluations he can in about 3 minutes, the average time he has to spend with each patient in the ER’s rapid evaluation unit as he makes triage type decisions on their options for further care. Dr. Fisher writes letters that may, or may not, be sent to these individuals explaining the conditions and policies that hinder so many from getting the best healthcare available, reasons, and conclusions which left me with a lot to ponder. Between the actual ER cases, the people, and the letters, this book kept me completely immersed in this account. #Goodreadsgiveaway ( ) LyndaJCoker | Mar 3, 2022 | inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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"Thomas Fisher was raised on the South Side of Chicago and even as a kid understood how close death could feel-he came from a family of pioneering doctors who believed in staying in the community, but on those streets he saw just how vulnerable Black bodies could be. Determined to follow his family's legacy, Fisher studied public health at Dartmouth and Harvard, then returned to the University of Chicago Medical School. As soon as he graduated, he began working in the ER that served his South Side community. Even as his career took him to stints at the White House, working on what would eventually become the Affordable Care Act and helping develop HMOs for underserved communities, he never gave up his ER rotations. He knew that to really understand healthcare disparities and medical needs, you had to stay close. The emergency room is designed for the most urgent cases, but it is often the first resort for South Side residents without any other choice. Fisher deals with those patients with necessary dispatch, but what he really wants to do is to spend his time helping them understand how it is they ended up in the ER-talk to them about the role economics plays in their health; the history of healthcare for the poor and marginalized; why Black people in particular distrust the medical profession; why they don't have a personal physician; the effect of food deserts and education gaps on their health; and, most of all, why they live in a society that has deemed their bodies and lives as less important than others. In this book he gets to have those lost conversations. This is the story of a dramatic year in the life of the Chicago ER-a year of an unprecedented pandemic and a ferocious epidemic of homicides-interwoven with the primer in healthcare one doctor wishes he could give his patients. Full of day-to-day drama, heartbreaking stories, compelling personal narrative, and penetrating analysis of our most fundamental failure as a society, this is a page-turning and mind-opening work that will offer readers a fresh vision of healthcare as a foundation of social justice"-- Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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