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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...
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The author tells of her experiences working in American emergency rooms, often having to make split-second life-or-death decisions, discusses how burn-out drove her to join the international humanitarian organization Doctors without Borders, and shares stories of the appalling conditions she found in Bosnia, Nigeria, and Kosovo.
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