Dr. Alex Jahangir served as head of Metro Nashville’s COVID-19 Task Force for the two years it was in existence. It was a role he never expected to fill, but with the city between Public Health Department directors, he stepped up when asked by Mayor John Cooper.
The long hours, on top of his already demanding workload as a trauma surgeon and coupled with intense public scrutiny, took a toll on his personal life. Through it all, Dr. Jahangir kept a pandemic version of “op notes” — the entries he writes after each operation. He later expanded these into a book, Hot Spot: A Doctor’s Diary From the Pandemic, published this month. He talks about what he learned leading Nashville’s COVID response.
But first, a new episode of Reveal looks into the history of convict leasing, a practice that enriched companies across the South and in Tennessee.
Guests:
- Margie Mason, reporter, Associated Press
- Dr. Alex Jahangir, professor of orthopaedic surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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