Audrey Young: Life at Harborview

08/27/2009 at 8:00 p.m.

Dr. Audrey Young says she went to work at Seattle's Harborview Medical Center because she loves the attitude there. She says the staff acts like every person who comes through the door needs to be given the best care possible, no matter whether the patient is homeless or some sort of VIP. Young writes about the hospital's daily dramas in her book "The House of Hope and Fear: Life in a Big City Hospital." Here, she shares some of those stories, like one about Dr. Alice Brownstein, drinking coffee and trying like mad to find beds for patients, every day. Young also lets us in on her personal thoughts about the raging health care debate. Dr. Young now practices medicine at Evergreen Hospital in Kirkland. She spoke at Elliott Bay Book Company on August 14, 2009.