Dave Davies

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A doctor chronicles life in a Chicago ER during the first year of the pandemic

Though he fully expected to be infected with COVID, Dr. Thomas Fisher says he was committed to providing medical care to the Black community on Chicago’s South Side. His new book is The Emergency.

‘Doctors Blackwell’ Tells The Story Of 2 Pioneering Sisters Who Changed Medicine

Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman in America to earn her medical degree. Her sister Emily followed in her footsteps. Janice Nimura tells the story of the “complicated, prickly” trailblazers.

Author Details ‘Living With Death’ In Her 20s And Scrambling For Life-Saving Care

Katherine Standefer was uninsured and working as a hiking guide when diagnosed with a genetic heart condition. She chronicles her experience with an implanted heart device in Lightning Flowers.

Will The Affordable Care Act Survive The Next Supreme Court Challenge?

“Republicans have been trying to drive a stake into the heart of Obamacare pretty much since it was passed — both through legislation and litigation,” New York Times reporter Sarah Kliff says.

Psychiatrist: America’s ‘Extremely Punitive’ Prisons Make Mental Illness Worse

Dr. Christine Montross says people with serious mental illnesses in the U.S. are far more likely to be incarcerated than to be treated in a psychiatric hospital. Her new book is Waiting for an Echo.

A Doctor Confronts Medical Errors — And Flaws In The System That Create Mistakes

Dr. Danielle Ofri says medical errors are more common than most people realize: “If we don’t talk about the emotions that keep doctors and nurses from speaking up, we’ll never solve this problem.”

Reckoning With The Dead: Journalist Goes Inside An NYC COVID-19 Disaster Morgue

Time reporter W.J. Hennigan embedded with workers responsible for caring for the bodies of some 20,000 New Yorkers who have died from COVID-19. “It’s a haunting thing,” he says.

Reckoning With The Dead: Journalist Goes Inside An NYC COVID-19 Disaster Morgue

Time magazine reporter W.J. Hennigan embedded with workers responsible for caring for the bodies of some 20,000 New Yorkers who have died from COVID-19. “It’s a haunting thing,” he says.

Compared With China, U.S. Stay-At-Home Has Been ‘Giant Garden Party,’ Journalist Says

New York Times health reporter Donald McNeil points to China as one extreme way to stop a pandemic in its tracks. “We’re reluctant to follow China, but they did it,” he says. At least for now.

Long Before COVID-19, Dr. Tony Fauci ‘Changed Medicine In America Forever’

New Yorker writer Michael Specter covered Fauci’s early work in the AIDS epidemic. “He’s always taken an open-minded approach to the problems,” Specter says of the infectious-disease expert.