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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			_aOne World trade paperback edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bOne World, _c2023.
264		4	_c©2023
300			_axvi, 264 pages ; _c21 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 247-256) 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 -- Epilogue: August 2022.
520			_a"The riveting, pulse-pounding story of a year in the life of an emergency room doctor trying to steer his patients and colleagues through a crushing pandemic and a violent summer, amidst a healthcare system that seems determined to leave them behind." -- _cFrom publisher description.
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.
600	1	0	_aFisher, Thomas _c(Board-certified emergency medicine physician)
610	2	0	_aUniversity of Chicago Medical Center.
650		0	_aEmergency medicine _zIllinois _zChicago _xHistory _y21st century.
650		0	_aCOVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- _zIllinois _zChicago.
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 _zIllinois _zChicago.
655		7	_aAnecdotes. _2lcgft _94847
700	1		_aCoates, Ta-Nehisi, _ewriter of foreword. _9281791
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