An Arm and a Leg

One ER Doc’s Journey Through the Pandemic — and the Health Care System

Thomas Fisher is an emergency room doc in Chicago. His book, The Emergency , is an up-close chronicle of the COVID pandemic’s first year in his South Side ER. It also zooms out to tell the story of his journey as a doctor: How his upbringing on the South Side fueled his desire to become a doctor. And how the realities and inequities of American health care…