Doctor’s memoir of the early years of AIDS brings back the heart-breaking reality Plague Years: A Doctor’s Journey through the AIDS Crisis by Ross A.
Slotten, MD (University of Chicago Press, 2020) $20; 214 pages. Cover your nose and mouth. Wash your hands with soap and water.
Stay six feet away from strangers and those you think might be infected; better yet, stay at home. And that’s how you squash a pandemic — more or less — although, as in the new book Plague Years by Ross A.
Slotten MD, sometimes it’s not that easy. It wasn’t until Slotten saw his former lover, Art, that the reality hit him. He hadn’t even considered that he’d be at risk for AIDS, though he’d been ministering to AIDS patients for several years by then.