Happy Sunday and happy spring! Sarah here, filling in for Torie. I was struck this week by an essay from longtime contributor Jay Baruch, an emergency medicine professor at Brown University. As ERs face continued bed shortages, some patients are parked in corners and hallways, feeling both invisible as staff rush by while they wait and exposed when they finally get a chance to be examined. It also takes a toll on doctors like Baruch, who detailed his experience treating several patients in “today’s diluted version of health care.”
Recommendation of the week: “60 Songs that Explain the ’90s: the 2000s.” Podcast host and music critic Rob Harvilla recorded a series on the defining songs of one decade, and now he’s back tackling the early aughts. As a big music fan raised on VH1’s “Behind the Music,” I always enjoy how Harvilla kicks off each episode by spinning a yarn that winds its way to a lively exploration of some of the iPod era’s biggest hits.
