Tag: Rikers Island
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The girl on the gurney
Diana PiWestlake, Ohio, United States A month before my gig as senior medical resident at Bellevue Hospital was up, I spent a morning in the New York City morgue. Why? I lost a patient. A young man with end-stage AIDS, a prisoner from Rikers Island. The morgue, a stone’s throw from Bellevue Hospital, was what…