Harborview Medical Center: KNKX Sound Effect, Episode 149

KNKX | Your Connection to Jazz, Blues and NPR News
Program: Sound Effect by Kevin Kniestedt & Gabriel Spitzer | June 30, 2018

This week we spend the hour with stories from Harborview Medical Center, the Level 1 Trauma Center covering four states and nearly 100,000 square miles. We hear the story of a tragic house fire in Alaska that gave rise to a world-class medevac system. We visit a clinic serving refugees, and a club where staff and patients blow off steam by laughing at nothing. We get to know psychiatric patients getting counsel from people who have been in their shoes, and meet a doctor whose life changed when he was called to help a pregnant woman gored by a yak. MORE