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Everything Is An Emergency | Bess Stillman | Substack
Everything Is An Emergency
I'm Bess Stillman: ER doctor, writer, recent widow to Jake Seliger, who died of SCC of the tongue, and soon-to-be Mom to Athena. I write about the challenges of being corporeal. Here you'll find essays on life, death, cancer, love, health & healthcare.
By Bess Stillman
· Over 4,000 subscribers“As an ER Doc Bess Stillman writes about the front lines of healthcare making me laugh and cry in equal measure. As the wife and primary caregiver of a husband dying of tongue cancer she writes of love, impending loss and the madness of the US healthcare system with searing clarity. She breaks my heart open on the regular.”...”
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