David Ansell to Appear on Make It Plain

David Ansell will appear on Mark Thompson's Make It Plain on Thursday. Get more info >

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How Inequality Kills: Doctors, Hospitals and the American Death Gap

David A. Ansell, MD, MPH, Senior Vice President, Systems Integration, Rush University Medical Center Michael E. Kelly, MD, Presidential Professor, Rush University Medical Center Author, County: Life, Death, and Politics in Chicago’s Public Hospital - Hailed as a “landmark book” by the Chicago Tribune

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Excerpt from “The Death Gap”

I Sat up, strangely perplexed. For a moment, perhaps, I could not clearly understand how I came there. My terror had fallen from me like a garment. My hat had gone, and my collar had burst away from its fastener. A few minutes before, there had only been three real things before me-the immensity of the night and space and nature, my own feebleness and anguish, and the near approach of death.

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