Steven Zlotowski, MD, has been an ER doctor for over 25 years and served as Chair of his hospital’s Covid Task Force from 2020-2022. Dr. Z is also a National Geographic Expeditions physician. Earlier professional experiences include being a chief resident, a flight physician and a wilderness medicine physician. This is Steve’s first book. He is a contest winning storyteller and hosts storytelling events at two venues.
March 5, 2020. The signs posted at the hospital entrances have been revised for the fourth time in the last six days. An ER doctor already knew Covid would engulf the world. He’s been keeping a journal, wanting to capture how his workplace, knowledge and emotions will evolve. But soon, his writing takes on another dimension as the present and past intertwine, his career with his family’s Holocaust history.
Through his professional and personal lenses, Dr. Steven Zlotowski captures a year unlike any other. His storytelling is equal parts witness, pandemic medicine, vulnerable self-examination, humor, history and metaphorical encounters. In the end, the virus is as much a disease as it is a mirror revealing our societal ills. His journey takes us on a breathtaking ride through the pandemic’s first year, and offers directions to the only safe exit, then or now…Love More
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