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A powerful, compelling firsthand account of the moral and ethical questions emergency-room doctors face even as they scramble to diagnose patients on the brink of death.
Code Gray is the riveting story of a seemingly healthy forty-three-year-old woman who arrives in the emergency room (ER) in sudden cardiac arrest. The cause of her condition is unknown, and as the ER team tries desperately to revive her, they cannot seem to find why her heart stopped.
Eventually the cause is discovered—too late to save her—and it raises an unexpected ethical concern for Dr. Nahvi and the woman’s husband. With this narrative as background, Dr. Nahvi shares other stories of moral and ethical challenges, among them an elderly woman and her adult daughter who each want to enlist him in a conspiracy to shield the other from knowledge of the mother’s terminal cancer diagnosis.
Dr. Nahvi worked in two of New York’s most heavily impacted ERs in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. He describes the frantic exchange of information among the city’s ER doctors as they collectively encountered an illness none of them had ever seen before.
Ranging from the Covid outbreak to the perennial glaring inequities in healthcare that it highlighted, Code Gray is a beautifully written, heartfelt memoir that will appeal to readers of Atul Gawande and Siddhartha Mukherjee.
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“Narrator Aden Hakimi effectively channels the author’s reflectiveness and compassion. Just like the doctor we would wish for in a crisis, Hakimi sounds assured and calm as he delivers terrible stories with careful attention and kindness.”
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“ER memoirs have become a reliable genre…but this addition is a cut above many of them…A moving, thoughtful memoir of life in the medical trenches.”
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“Timely and nuanced, Farzon Nahvi’s exploration of health care probes the grayscale of life…We are ever more in need of clear-eyed books like Code Gray.”
— Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, author of When We Do Harm: A Doctor Confronts Medical Error -
“An amazing guide to the portal separating life and death, sickness and health, and the real world and the hospital—that is, the modern emergency department.”
— Theresa Brown, author of Healing
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About Farzon A. Nahvi
Farzon A. Nahvi is an emergency-room (ER) physician at Concord Hospital in Concord, New Hampshire. Prior to this, he worked as an ER physician and clinical assistant professor of emergency medicine at the Mount Sinai Health System, New York University (NYU) Langone Health, Bellevue Hospital, and the Manhattan Veterans Administration. He is a graduate of Cornell University and NYU School of Medicine. He has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, London Guardian, New York Daily News, New York magazine, and other publications. In 2019, he testified as an expert witness before Congress in the nation’s first Medicare for All hearing.
About Aden Hakimi
Aden Hakimi is a voice-over actor based in Brooklyn. He studied theater performance at Northeastern University in Boston, with adjunct studies at Cambridge University in England and the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin. For over a decade, he has done voice work for audiobooks, commercials, animation, and corporate videos.