Jeremy Faust navigates a hallway in Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital as he heads to a patient struggling with breathing issues. As his evening shift begins, the emergency department is alive with the sounds of monitors beeping, medical carts rolling, and staff hurrying by with squeaky shoes. Patients on gurneys line the corridor, some in visible pain, others conversing with family members.
On this particular Wednesday evening in May, Faust is working what is generally a quieter shift in the emergency department. Despite this, he manages a team of doctors, students, and physician assistants, and will attend to over two dozen patients before his shift ends.
Faust is known for staying busy. Just moments earlier, he had published an article on his popular Substack newsletter, Inside Medicine, updating readers on a significant international news story. An alert to the newsletter’s nearly 85,000 subscribers highlighted his “scoop”: Twenty-six passengers from the MV Hondius, a cruise ship affected by hantavirus and docked near Cape Verde, had disembarked sooner than initially reported, potentially risking the spread of the rare virus in the United States.
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