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Kate Scannell has been a physician for 19 years. An assistant clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, she lives in Oakland, CA.
Death of a Good Doctor
"This haunting memoir is an important addition to the canon of AIDS literature. Scannell writes beautifully and with insight." —Abraham Verghese
"Irresistible, informative and enormously moving." —Gloria Steinem