Each chapter introduces us to a different case, although Harper never boils people down to their afflictions.
Harper tells her story through the lives of people she encounters on stretchers and gurneys - patients who are scared, vulnerable, confused and sometimes impatient to the point of rage. That’s why they always leave!”įrom there, Harper went to an emergency room in North Philadelphia (which had a volume of more than 95,000 patients a year) and then across town to yet another facility, where she had fewer bureaucratic obligations and more time for her true calling: seeing patients.
Still reeling, Harper moved to Philadelphia to work at a hospital where she was eventually passed over for a promotion by an apologetic (white, male, liberal) department chair who said: “I just can’t ever seem to get a Black person or a woman promoted here.
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