Life and Work Inside a Big City Hospital

Steve Scher
08/11/2009 at 9:00 a.m.

Hospitals are places where life and death are coupled close together. Many of us have visited a hospital, but few of us have worked in one. Join us today as we hear the stories of life working at a hospital. Do you work in a hospital? Share your stories with us: email "Weekday" or call 1.800.289.KUOW during the show.

Related Event

Audrey Young will be speaking this Friday, August 14, at 7:30 p.m. at Elliott Bay Books in Seattle.

Guest(s)

Audrey Young, MD is currently practicing at Evergreen Hospital. She was an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine and a staff physician at Seattle's Harborview Medical Center. She is the author of "What Patients Taught Me: A Medical Student's Journey" and the new book "The House of Hope and Fear: Life in a Big City Hospital."

Carter Hill is an emergency physician at Highline Medical Center in Seattle, Wash. He works the night shift and has so exclusively for the last 10 years. He also directs the Medical Program for Holland America Cruise lines, and is the ambassador for the American College of Emergency Physicians to Vietnam, where he teaches emergency medicine.

Seth Leopold, MD is a professor and vice chair of Orthopedics and Sports Medicine for University of Washington School of Medicine.

Mollie Rieck is a chaplain resident at University of Washington Medical Center.

Don Miller is an emergency room nurse at Swedish Medical Center.