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Living And Dying In Brick City
Sampson Davis
An E.R. Doctor Returns Home
Spiegel & Grau
February 2013
On Sale: February 12, 2013
256 pages ISBN: 1400069947 EAN: 9781400069941 Kindle: B00985E1OY Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
A riveting personal exploration of the healthcare crisis
facing inner-city communities, written by an emergency room
physician who grew up in the very neighborhood he is now
serving Sampson Davis is best known as
one of three friends from inner-city Newark who made a pact
in high school to become doctors. Their book The Pact
and their work through the Three Doctors Foundation have
inspired countless young men and women to strive for goals
they otherwise would not have dreamed they could attain. In
this book, Dr. Davis looks at the healthcare crisis in the
inner city from a rare perspective: as a doctor who works on
the front line of emergency medical care in the community
where he grew up, and as a member of that community who has
faced the same challenges as the people he treats every day.
He also offers invaluable practical advice for those living
in such communities, where conditions like asthma, heart
disease, stroke, obesity, and AIDS are disproportionately
endemic. Dr. Davis’s sister, a drug addict,
died of AIDS; his brother is now paralyzed and confined to a
wheelchair as a result of a bar fight; and he himself did
time in juvenile detention—a wake-up call that changed his
life. He recounts recognizing a young man who is brought to
the E.R. with critical gunshot wounds as someone who was
arrested with him when he was a teenager during a robbery
gone bad; describes a patient whose case of sickle-cell
anemia rouses an ethical dilemma; and explains the
difficulty he has convincing his landlord and friend, an
older woman, to go to the hospital for much-needed
treatment. With empathy and hard-earned wisdom, Living
and Dying in Brick City presents an urgent picture of
medical care in our cities. It is an important resource
guide for anyone at risk, anyone close to those at risk, and
anyone who cares about the fate of our cities.
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