County Patient in ER 1979 from BBC documentary, "I Call it Murder"

Cook County Hospital General Medicine Clinic Waiting Room sometime in the 1980s. It looks like this 30 years later (Photo from David Goldberg, MD and Gordy Schiff, MD)

County Hospital ER Waiting Room about 1980

Patients packed into benches down the middle of the hall in old Fantus Clinic (photo from David Goldberg MD)

 Mr. Wallace Davis at "Last Rounds."  A victim of police brutality he spent 13 months at County (photo from Cook County Health System Archives)   

The waiting room in the General Medicine Clinic. People waited for hours (photo from David Goldberg, MD and Gordy Schiff, MD)

Patient in the ER Waiting Room at Cook County Hospital in 1979 from BBC Documentary, "I Call it Murder"

Dr. Cynthia Watson, longtime County doc touring the new County Hospital at "Last Rounds" in 2002.

On the porch of our house in Syracuse, about 1977.  (photo from Barry Abrams, MD)

Dr. Stuart Kiken, Chief Resident photo,1982 (photo from Cook County Health and Hospital System Archives)

Studs Terkel and me taken a few years before "Last Rounds" (photo from Gordy Schiff, MD)

Dr. Jack Raba, heading to jail for defying a court order during the housestaff strike, 1975 (photo from David Ansell, MD)

Dr. Linda Rae Murray was president of the Housestaff Association at County from 1979 to 1980 (photo source unknown) 

Breast Cancer Screening Program, about 1989-from left- me, Loretta Lacey and Steve Whitman (photo from University of Illinois School of Public Health)

Here we are in April 1985, turning in signed cards for an attending physicians union. We would fail in our attempt to unionize, thwarted by organized labor in Chicago (photo from Peter Orris, MD)

Ron Sable, MD founded the first HIV/AIDS clinic at County and was a health activist (photo from Stuart Kiken, MD).

Gordy Schiff, MD at "Last Rounds" in September 2002 (photo from "Last Rounds" DVD)

Me as a young internal resident at County Hospital, early 1980s (photo from Peter Orris, MD)

County Hospital OR, 1979 (photo from Cook County Health and Hospital System Archive)

Drs. Gordy Schiff, Pat Rush and me at "Last Rounds," September 2002 (photo from Gordy Schiff, MD)

Dr. Lee Meyers, retired Neurology Chair and Dr. Gordy Schiff at "Last Rounds."  (photo from "Last Rounds" DVD)

Author Studs Terkel keynoted the "Last Rounds," September 2002 (photo from "Last Rounds" DVD)

Dr. Linda Rae Murray,1979. Named  President of the American Public Health Association, in 2011 

Dr. Linda Rae Murray, in 1979. Asked to describe the practice of "patient dumping," she  replied, "I call it murder." 

Cook County Operating Room in 1970s (photo from David Goldberg, MD and Gordy Schiff, MD)

Studs Terkel with Dr. Albert Stein, in his 90s the oldest County grad at "Last Rounds" (photo from Gordy Schiff, MD)

Dr. Marge Cohen, a thirty year County Hospital veteren, and health activist,began a program for women and children with HIV/AIDS at County Hospital and then replicated it in Rwanda. With a patient in Rwanda (photo from Mardge Cohen, MD)

Dr. Quentin Young (right) with Dr. benjamin Spock and the "Chicago 7" in the early 1970s

Mayor Jane Byrne (1980) at the dedication of the new Presbyterian Hospital building that blocked Paulina St.  As a candidate for mayor, in 1979 she had led the march to demand the street be reopened to traffic. (Rush Univesity Archives)

Mrs. Ruth Rothstein, CEO of the Cook County Bureau of Health for fourteen years,  led the charge for the new hospital. (photo from David Ansell, MD)

The victory of Harold Washington in the 1983 Democratic Primary for Chicago Mayor helped us win approval of the Breast Cancer Screening Program

Dr. Agnes Lattimer at "Last Rounds." She was the only Black woman in her 1940 medical school class and rose to become medical director at Cook County Hospital (photo from Gordy Schiff, MD)

Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne, 1980, at the dedication of the new Presbyterian Hospital one year after leading a protest against Pres' closing of Paulina Street (photo from Rush University Medical Center Archives)

Poster announcing "Last Rounds," 2002 (photo from Gordy Schiff, MD)

Drss. Quentin Young (left,) Linda Rae Murray (next to Quentin), and Claudia Fagan with Barack Obama

Quentin Young, MD 1979 (photo from David Ansell, MD)

Quentin Young, MD, Chair Department of Medicine, Cook County Hospital, 1972-1981 (photo from David Ansell, MD)

Quentin Young, MD, in 1979. You could not be at County and not be a proponent of universal healthcare.

Mrs. Ruth Rothstein, CEO of the Cook County Bureau of Health from 1991-2005. (photo from Cook County Health and Hospital Systems Archives)

Housestaff strike, 1975 (photo from Chicago Tribune)

Open Paulina demonstration, 1979 (photo from Babs Waldman, MD)

Mayoral candidate Jane Byrne leading protest against the closing of Paulina St, 1979 (photo from Babs Waldman, MD)

Poster announcing a rally, 1979 (photo from David Ansell, MD)

Nurses protest to keep County open, 1979 (photo from Babs Waldman, MD)

Payless payday. Protesters take County patients to Presbyterian. Mardge Cohen on left. (photo from Chicago Tribune}

Rally, 1979 (photo from Chicago Tribune)

Peter Orris, MD picketing  (photo from Peter Orris, MD)

Demonstration against budget cut in front of new County Hospital, 2007

Patient Dumping makes news, 1985 (editorial cartoon from Jack Higgins)

Housestaff  strike, 1975 (photo from Cook County Health and Hospital System Archives)

Jane Byrne at "Open Paulina, Close Pres" march, 1979 (photos from Babs Waldman, MD)

"Last Rounds" 2002, (photo from Cook County Health and Hospital System Archives)

Open Paulina speeches, 1979 (photo from Babs Waldman, MD)

The wall at Paulina Street with banners (photo from Babs Waldman, MD)

Plaque on Pasteur statue in Pasteur Park across from the old County Hospital (photo from Rush Photo Group)

Quentin at Sicko premiere. His experience at County led him and others to become single payor proponents.

County and Rush doctor, Dr Fenger in County Hospital ampitheatre in late 1800s (photo from Rush University archives)

James Herrick, MD (bearded on right) in County Hospital ampitheatre, early 1900s (Cook County Hospital archives) 

Lonely wheelchairs outside the County ER, 1980s (photo from David Goldberg, MD and Gordy Schiff, MD)

Chicago police paddy wagon bringing a patient to the County ER (photo from David Ansell, MD)

Doctors at the table in Ward 35 (photo from David Goldberg, MD and Gordy Schiff, MD)

Ward 35, the open admitting floor at County, 1980s (photo from David Goldberg, MD and Gordy Schiff, MD)

Cook County Hospital postcard, 1914 (photo from David Goldberg, MD) 

John Stroger, Jr Hospital of Cook County, opened in 2002 (photo from David Ansell, MD)

Ms. Reba McLin was the evening shift ward clerk on Ward 35, the medicine admitting unit at County, 1980s (photo from Stuart Kiken, MD) 

Editorial Cartoon 1985 depicting patient dumping (from Jack Higgns)