A Fearless Leader (or…Where the Light Enters)
Dr. Sandra Scott is the Chair of Emergency Medicine at Brookdale Hospital in the South Bronx, NY. She told this story at “Airway,” a virtual Emergency Medicine storytelling event in June 2020, and we have been thinking about it ever since. Here are the ingredients: a pandemic, a sick patient with a service dog, and a hospital leader walking that dog through the empty streets just before dawn on March 20, 2020. Dr. Scott’s story is about the ways in which the ordinary became suddenly extraordinary, and the need for a leader to be brave.
