New book explores a year in the life of a Chicago ER doctor during COVID-19 pandemic

In “The Emergency,” Dr. Thomas Fisher captures insurmountable challenges as an attending physician of UChicago Medicine’s ER department.

A medical worker puts on a mask before entering a negative pressure room with a Covid-19 patient in the ICU ward at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Mass. on January 4, 2022.
A medical worker puts on a mask before entering a negative pressure room with a Covid-19 patient in the ICU ward at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Mass. on January 4, 2022. Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images
A medical worker puts on a mask before entering a negative pressure room with a Covid-19 patient in the ICU ward at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Mass. on January 4, 2022.
A medical worker puts on a mask before entering a negative pressure room with a Covid-19 patient in the ICU ward at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Mass. on January 4, 2022. Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images

New book explores a year in the life of a Chicago ER doctor during COVID-19 pandemic

In “The Emergency,” Dr. Thomas Fisher captures insurmountable challenges as an attending physician of UChicago Medicine’s ER department.

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In his new book, The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER, Dr. Thomas Fisher takes us back to the early, uncertain days of the pandemic.

Reset talks with the doctor about his experience and how the pandemic exposed racial inequalities in the healthcare system.

GUEST: Dr. Thomas Fisher, emergency medicine physician, University of Chicago Medical Center