Date/Time
Date(s) - June 10, 2026
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Our next book selection is “Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER“, by Farzon A Nahvi
Code Gray is a “provocative and meaningful” (Theresa Brown, New York Times bestselling author of Healing) narrative-driven medical memoir that places you directly in the crucible of urgent life-or-death decision-making, offering insights that can help us cope at a time when the world around us appears to be falling apart.
“Timely and nuanced, Farzon Nahvi’s exploration of healthcare probes the grayscale of life, from the most human of details to the overarching systemic issues. As we grapple with unprecedented challenges to both healthcare and society, 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
“At turns discomfiting and often bracing, the book uses one specific case (a previously healthy woman who has a heart attack) as a stalking horse to present [Nahvi’s] real point, namely that when it comes to life and death, what we see and what we say are rarely black and white.” – James Tarmy, Bloomberg Businessweek (Best New Books of Spring)
“A provocative and meaningful book, Code Gray takes us to the hard places in health care, where the ‘correct’ treatment choices can be impossible to know. Fortunately, Dr. Nahvi is caring and percipient. He is 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, New York Times Bestselling author of Healing: When A Nurse Becomes a Patient and The Shift
“Farzon Nahvi creates a fast-moving primer in medical ethics and humanism while addressing many decisions made daily in the emergency room that are critical to life and well-being and always made with substantial uncertainty.” – Lewis R. Goldfrank, Chairman Emeritus and Herbert W. Adams Professor of Emergency Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine, NYU/Bellevue Hospital Center
The meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, June 10th at 6:00 PM at the home of Fred and Millie May. If you would like to receive our monthly SWD Book Club Reminder Email, or to let us know if you are coming, please contact Fred & Millie May at fred.may@outlook.com.
