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CODE GRAY: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER
Code Gray is a narrative-driven medical memoir that places you directly in the crucible of urgent life-or-death decision-making, offering insights that can help us cope at a time when the world around us appears to be falling apart.
In the tradition of books by such bestselling physician-authors as Atul Gawande, Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Danielle Ofri, this beautifully written memoir by an emergency room doctor takes place during one of his routine shifts at an urban ER. Intimately narrated as it follows the experiences of real patients, it is filled with fascinating, adrenaline-pumping scenes of rescues and deaths, and the critical, often excruciating follow-through in caring for the patients' families.
Centered on the riveting story of a seemingly healthy forty-three-year-old woman who arrives in the ER in sudden cardiac arrest, Code Gray weaves in stories that explore everything from the early days of the Covid outbreak to the perennial glaring inequities of our healthcare system. It offers an unforgettable portrait of challenges so profound, powerful, and extreme that normal ethical and medical frameworks prove inadequate. By inviting the reader to experience what it is like to work a shift in the ER from the perspective of a physician, we are forced to test our core beliefs and principles. Often, there are no clear answers to these challenges posed in the ER. We are left feeling unsettled, but through this process, we can come to appreciate just how complicated, emotional, unpredictableand yet strikingly beautifullife can be.
Farzon A. Nahvi is an ER physician at Concord Hospital in Concord, New Hampshire, and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Prior to this, he worked as an ER physician and Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Mount Sinai Health System, NYU Langone Health, Bellevue Hospital, and the Manhattan VA. He is a graduate of Cornell University and NYU School of Medicine. He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Daily News (New York), New York magazine, and other publications. In April 2019, he testified as an expert witness before Congress in the nation's first Medicare for All hearing.
Centered on the riveting story of a seemingly healthy forty-three-year-old woman who arrives in the ER in sudden cardiac arrest, Code Gray weaves in stories that explore everything from the early days of the Covid outbreak to the perennial glaring inequities of our healthcare system. It offers an unforgettable portrait of challenges so profound, powerful, and extreme that normal ethical and medical frameworks prove inadequate. By inviting the reader to experience what it is like to work a shift in the ER from the perspective of a physician, we are forced to test our core beliefs and principles. Often, there are no clear answers to these challenges posed in the ER. We are left feeling unsettled, but through this process, we can come to appreciate just how complicated, emotional, unpredictableand yet strikingly beautifullife can be.
Farzon A. Nahvi is an ER physician at Concord Hospital in Concord, New Hampshire, and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Prior to this, he worked as an ER physician and Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Mount Sinai Health System, NYU Langone Health, Bellevue Hospital, and the Manhattan VA. He is a graduate of Cornell University and NYU School of Medicine. He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Daily News (New York), New York magazine, and other publications. In April 2019, he testified as an expert witness before Congress in the nation's first Medicare for All hearing.
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Published 2023-02-01 by Simon & Schuster |