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DO HARM: The Book That Began with a Word I Did Not Know
I am not a physician. I have never cultured a specimen, read a chest film, or signed a death certificate. I trained as a dramatist at Columbia, in the Oscar Hammerstein II Center, which qualifies me to tell you how a scene builds and not much else about a hospital. So let me get the obvious objection out of the way early, because it is the first thing a serious reader should ask. What business does a playwright have writing a book about hospital-acquired infection? The answer is the whole book, and it starts in a shut room in Newark in 2002. […]https://bolesblogs.com/2026/07/21/do-harm-the-book-that-began-with-a-word-i-did-not-know/
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DO HARM: The Book That Began with a Word I Did Not Know
I am not a physician. I have never cultured a specimen, read a chest film, or signed a death certificate. I trained as a dramatist at Columbia, in the Oscar Hammerstein II Center, which qualifies me to tell you how a scene builds and not much else about a hospital. So let me get the obvious objection out of the way early, because it is the first thing a serious reader should ask. What business does a playwright have writing a book about hospital-acquired infection? The answer is the whole book, and it starts in a shut room in Newark in 2002. […]https://bolesblogs.com/2026/07/21/do-harm-the-book-that-began-with-a-word-i-did-not-know/