“Are You Slow?”: Seven Years with San Francisco's Hit Doctors - University of California Press

Author Sarah Brothers on the importance and challenges of "hit doctors."

by Sarah Brothers, author of Hit Doctors: Care, Harm, and the Art of Survival David and I met one morning at his new place. He was eager to show it off. After years in a tiny, light-less room in a downtown SRO, he had received Section 8 housing in a quiet, garden-filled neighborhood on the edge of San Francisco. A long, newly planted bed of succulents stretched from the sidewalk to his front door. I suspected he had planted them himself, and I was right. We spent the morning drinking coffee and eating cherries while listening to an audiobook of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,…

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