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Code Gray is a provocative and meaningful Theresa Brown New York Times bestselling author of Healing narrativedriven medical memoir that places you directly in the crucible of urgent lifeordeath decisionmaking offering insights that can help us cope at a time when the world around us appears to be falling apart

In the tradition of books by such bestselling physicianauthors as Atul Gawande Siddhartha Mukherjee and Danielle Ofri this beautifully written memoir by an emergency room doctor revolves around one of his routine shifts at an urban ER Intimately narrated as it follows the experiences of real patients it is filled with fascinating adrenalinepumping scenes of rescues and deaths and the critical often excruciating followthrough in caring for patients families

Centered on the riveting story of a seemingly healthy fortythreeyearold woman who arrives in the ER in sudden cardiac arrest Code Gray weaves in stories that explore everything from the early days of the Covid outbreak to the perennial glaring inequities of our healthcare system It offers an unforgettable discomfiting and often bracing Bloomberg Businessweek portrait of challenges so profound powerful and extreme that normal ethical and medical frameworks prove inadequate By inviting you to experience what it is like to shift in the ER from a physicians perspective we are forced to test our beliefs and principles Often there are no clear answers to these challenges posed in the ER You are left feeling unsettled but through this process we can appreciate just how complicated emotional unpredictableand yet strikingly beautifullife can be