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.
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“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.”
H.E. Fierce, Effervescent Chimeras