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001			on1255597580
003			OCoLC
005			20220329111437.0
008			210903s2022 nyu e b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2021039073
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020			_a9780593230671 _q(hardcover)
020			_a0593230671 _q(hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)1255597580 _z(OCoLC)1294394800
042			_apcc
092			_a362.1089 _bF536
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aFisher, Thomas _c(Board-certified emergency medicine physician), _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe emergency : _ba year of healing and heartbreak in a Chicago ER / _cThomas Fisher.
250			_aFirst edition.
263			_a2203
264		1	_aNew York : _bOne World, _c[2022]
264		4	_c©2022
300			_axvi, 254 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 237-246) and index.
505	0		_aForeword / by Ta-Nehisi Coates - February 2020 -- March 2020 -- Dear Janet -- November 2019 -- Dear Nicole -- May 2020 - Dear Robert -- July 4, 2020 -- Dear Dania -- August 2020 -- Dear Richard -- September 2020 -- Dear Ms. Favors -- November 2020 -- Dear Mom.
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _xMedical care. _9287742
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _xHealth and hygiene. _9287741
650		0	_aMinorities _xMedical care.
650		0	_aSocial medicine. _9312720
650		0	_aDiscrimination in medical care.
650		0	_aEquality _xHealth aspects. _9293879
650		0	_aHospitals _xEmergency services.
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