Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER

A decent book adding to the ever growing list of emergency physicians and other medical folk pouring their experiences into the written form.

I enjoyed the read, though I also found a one hour prologue consisting almost entirely of text messages during the COVID era a little off-putting. It felt less like a story the author wanted to tell, and more like a scaring indictment of the American medical system. Which it deserves, but seemed terribly out of place in a book dedicated to the experiences of an ER doctor at work. This was not about the people who suffered from the first COVID wave but about the Trump administrations unwillingness to provide proper medical equipment to healthcare workers.

However once you get past this extended rant, it's a an emotionally challenging journey through a single day of an ER doctor's experience, touching on a great number of ethical and medical dilemmas and insights.