David Ansell, MD author of COUNTY: Life, Death and Politics at Chicago's Public Hospital

Dr. David Ansell writes of the hundreds of doctors who went through the rigorous training process with him, sharing his vision of saving the world and of resurrecting a hospital on the verge of closing. COUNTY is about people, from Ansell's mentors, including the legendary Quentin Young, to the multitude of patients whom he and County's medical staff labored to diagnose and heal. It is a story about politics, from contentious union strikes to battles against "patient dumping", and public health, depicting the AIDS crisis and the opening of County's HIV/AIDS clinic, the first in the city. Finally, it is about a young man's medical education in urban America, a coming-of-age story set against a backdrop of race, segregation and poverty.   

Chief Medical Officer at Rush University Medical Center, Dr.Ansell has dedicated his career to fighting health inequity by building programs to address and eliminate these disparities. 

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