Independent radio reporter
Formerly a medical epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control Adjunct professor of public health, Rollins Schoolof Public Health at Emory University. I have been an independent radio producer since 2006.
2011 National Health Journalism Fellow.
<p><span class="article-content"><span>Half of the patients in Grady Hospital's emergency room don't have a regular doctor. When they're sick, they have nowhere to go but the E.R. </span></span></p>
<p><span class="article-content"><span>As the area's health provider for the poor and uninsured, Grady Hospital gets most of its funds from federal, state and local governments. But that's not enough to cover costs.</span></span></p>
<p>For more than 100 years, Atlanta's Grady Hospital has been the health care provider for the region's poor and uninsured, but in 2007, it faced a crisis. Philip Graitcer investigates.</p>
