The Doctor Will See You Now

by Cory Franklin

  Chapter 47 appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle as “How a Telltale Heart Could Change Medicine Forever,” August 2, 2015.

  Chapter 59 appeared in Northwestern Magazine as “Back to the Future,” Spring 2016.

  ALSO AVAILABLE FROM ACADEMY CHICAGO PUBLISHERS

  Cook County ICU

  30 Years of Unforgettable

  Patients and Odd Cases

  By Cory Franklin, MD

  420 pages, 6 x 9

  Trade paper, $16.95 (CAN $19.95)

  ISBN 978-0-89733-925-4

  “[A] deeply humanist collection.”

  —Publishers Weekly

  “Longtime doctor and first-rate observer Cory Franklin writes that, in the emergency room, ‘the day shift was rap music, the evening shift was easy listening, and the overnight shift was jazz.’ Franklin is an overnighter, riffing on practitioners and patients, jamming with equal parts pride and regret about his fascinating and sometimes brutal world.”

  —Marilyn Johnson, author of Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists

  and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble

  “For those who know Cook County Hospital or trained there as I did, this book will rekindle emotions from those times. I can honestly say that this book is a phenomenal, funny yet poignant read. It’s a ‘must read’ for anyone interested in Chicago institutions and legends in medicine.”

  —George Bakris, MD, FASN, FAHA, Professor of Medicine,

  University of Chicago Medicine

  “The Cook County Hospital intensive care unit was the focal point whereupon Chicagoans in the inner city either survived or succumbed to the rigors of urban life. Using a combination of clinical anecdotes from all phases of his medical career and historical notes, Dr. Franklin resuscitates the Cook County ICU, bringing it back to life for the reader. A must read for anyone interested in the historical landscape of Chicago critical care.”

  —Jerrold B. Leikin, MD

  Available at your favorite bookstore,

  by calling (800) 888-4741,

  or at www.chicagoreviewpress.com