Healthcare providers

Physician Meeta Prasad Kerlin chronicles her sister’s attempts to obtain a kidney transplant during the pandemic, It Is What It is, September 21, 2021.

Every Minute is a Day: A Doctor, an Emergency Room, and a City under Siege is the product of collaboration between New York Times writer Dan Koeppel and his cousin Robert Meyer, who worked in the emergency room of Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx during the pandemic. The book documents the experience of working at the epicenter of the pandemic in the US.

Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic, by Emma Goldberg, follows six physicians-in-training who begin their medical careers during the pandemic.

1 day in the ER, a 6-minute video made by Craig Spencer, MD, MPH, who concludes the account of his day in the ER saying “I survived Ebola. I fear COVID-19," November 29, 2020.

The Epicenter: A Week Inside New York's Public Hospital—photographs by Philip Montgomery and test by Jonathan Mahler.

State of Emergency—an ER doctor in New York writes “A Covid Diary: This is what I saw as the pandemic engulfed our hospitals," by Helen Ouyang with photographs by Philip Montgomery.

Stanford University’s Talk Rx, a live storytelling series established in 2017, is going virtual during the pandemic. Clinical students from everywhere and from all health disciplines are invited to share their stories. Contact the organizers—Pablo Romano, a third-year medical student, and Medicine and the Muse Writer-in-Residence and Director of Writing and Storytelling, Laurel Braitman PhD—for details, or complete the form here.

A Shift on the Front Line by physician Silvia Castelletti, NEJM, April 9, 2020.

An ICU Nurse’s Coronavirus Diary by Simone Hannah-Clark, New York Times, April 5, 2020.

Clinicians Are 'Sent Into War With Pool Noodles,' ICU Doc Says, a conversation between Abraham Verghese, MD and ICU physician Angela J. Rogers, MD, MPH, podcast and transcript

Coronavirus in New York - Report From the Front Lines by Michelle N. Gong, MD, MS, Chief of Critical Care Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, at the center of planning for the surge of patients who will require mechanical ventilation and intensive care, a JAMA audio interview, March 23, 2020.

Pandemic Influenza Storybook—This collection of personal recollections was released by the CDC in 2008 to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the 1918 flu pandemic.

A New York Doctor’s Warning: China warned Italy. Italy warned us. We didn’t listen. Now the onus is on the rest of America to listen to New York.—Emergency medicine physician Fred Milgrim in The Atlantic, March 27, 2020.