Here is an obituary for Alice Wong from The Sick Times, a publication aligned with disability rights and disability activism, if you are looking for an alternative to reading the nyt one: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...

I just tried calling my (Dem) senator and got a "my office is closed please call back tomorrow" automated message and no voicemail option. I've never had that happen before? (But, small sample size tbf.)

I... whaa... at LC we have archival collections measured in the millions of items.

I'm SO in!

Caroline is a friend and one of my favorite MG writers! So happy to see her books get love, especially from other writers I follow!

But I also very much subscribe to "not every piece of content for every consumer." I was able to deal because of the storytelling, the competence porn aspect, and the distance from my own areas of concern/difficulty/trauma. It won't be that way for everyone! And that's totally valid.

I'm also from Pittsburgh. Honestly, if it weren't for that and Noah Wyle I wouldn't have picked up the show /because/ it's a medical drama. But it's good storytelling and phenomenal acting, so I stayed. The medical part isn't like House or Grey's - it's realistic medicine, not DRAMA and genius >

I also feel very aware that this show is intentionally created as a reaction to the dismissal, disregard, and hate directed towards healthcare workers in the wake of the pandemic that is a separate type of complaint from the valid issues that disabled and CI folks have with workers/the system >

I watch it and it gives me "these types of doctors and nurses exist" feelings. But it's divorced enough from most of my own medical traumas being gaslight and dismissed by specialists because emergency medicine is so much it's own thing. >