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The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER - Thomas Fisher, M.D., MPH and Natalie Y. Moore

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Through twenty years of clinical practice, time as a White House fellow, and work as a healthcare entrepreneur, Thomas Fisher, M.D., MPH has seen firsthand how our country’s healthcare system can reflect the worst of society: treating the poor as expendable to provide top-notch care to a few. The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER is the riveting story of a year in the life of an emergency room through Dr. Fisher’s eyes as he tries 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.

Dr. Fisher, a board-certified emergency medicine physician at The University of Chicago Medical Center, brings us through his shift as he works with limited time and resources to treat incoming patients. And when he goes home, he remains haunted by what he sees throughout his day. The brutal wait times, the disconnect between hospital executives and policymakers and the people they're supposed to serve, and the inaccessible solutions that could help his patients. To cope with the relentless onslaught exacerbated by COVID, Fisher begins writing letters to patients and colleagues—letters he will never send—explaining it all to them as best he can.

Dr. Fisher will be in conversation with award-winning journalist Natalie Y. Moore, author of the new book The Billboard, a play about abortion, and The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation.

This event will be recorded and available later on the FAN website and our YouTube channel.

AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of The Emergency from FAN's partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Dr. Fisher that will start immediately after the webinar. Copy and paste this link to purchase the book: https://www.thebookstall.com/event/emergency-year-healing-and-heartbreak-chicago-er-fan-event-thomas-fisher-md-mph

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Apr 6, 2022 07:00 PM in Central Time (US and Canada)

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Message preview	Hi there, You are invited to a Zoom webinar. When: Apr 6, 2022 07:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada) Topic: The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER - Thomas Fisher, M.D., MPH and Natalie Y. Moore Register in advance for this webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_a7J0cD5lTCqDtoOg-mwCQg After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. ---------- Webinar Speakers Thomas Fisher, M.D., MPH (Emergency medicine physician at The University of Chicago Medical Center @https://twitter.com/tfishermd) Thomas Fisher, M.D., MPH is a board-certified emergency medicine physician at The University of Chicago. Previously, Dr. Fisher served as a 2010-11 White House Fellow, and as the special assistant to Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, he worked on ACA regulations and the HHS Action Plan for Reducing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. He continues to deliver care at The University of Chicago Medical Center, where he serves the same South Side community where he was raised. Dr. Fisher holds a BA from Dartmouth College, an MPH from Harvard, and an MD from the University of Chicago. Natalie Y. Moore (Journalist, author, and playwright @http://www.natalieymoore.com/) Natalie Y. Moore is an award-winning journalist based in Chicago, whose reporting tackles race, housing, economic development, food injustice and violence. Moore's latest book is the The Billboard, a play about abortion, published by Haymarket Books. Her acclaimed book The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation received the 2016 Chicago Review of Books award for nonfiction and was Buzzfeed’s best nonfiction book of 2016. She is also co-author of The Almighty Black P Stone Nation: The Rise, Fall and Resurgence of an American Gang and Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation. Moore contributed to “Southside,” a collection of stories about the criminal justice system in Chicago in collaboration with The Marshall Project/Amazon Original Stories in 2018. For the 100th anniversary of the 1919 Chicago riots, she co-wrote a 30-minute audio drama with Make Believe Association that aired on WBEZ. Event Sponsors Bennett Day School, Catherine Cook School, Christ Church Winnetka, Compass Health Center, Evanston Township High School D202, Family Service Center, Family Service of Glencoe, Francis W. Parker School, Fusion Academy, Glencoe D35, Kenilworth D38, Lake Forest Country Day School, Lake Michigan Association of Independent Schools, Loyola Academy, Magnetar Capital, Mindful Psychology Associates, New Trier High School D203, New Trier Parents' Association, North Shore Country Day, Pope John XXIII School, Regina Dominican High School, Rogers Park Montessori School, Roycemore School, School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University, Science & Arts Academy, Stevenson High School D125, The Family Institute at Northwestern University, Woodlands Academy, and Youth & Opportunity United (Y.O.U.).

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