Airfairy, Dragon, Rockstar

Is it possible-with the constraints of the health care system, with the horrors of a new viral pandemic-to love one's patients and to love practicing medicine? Through linked essays-interwoven with poems-Air Fairy, Dragon, and Rockstar depicts work as a physician during the COVID-19 pandemic at a Tribal-owned inner city clinic in Salt Lake City. The patients-refugees, unhoused, poor, and often very sick-are both medically and socially complex. The essays navigate through the pandemic, its death and uncertainty, and also through the narrator's past filled with similar death and uncertainty.

Author: Melissa Bentley
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Livingston Press at the University of West Al
Published: 10/01/2026
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9781604894219