Oh my gosh, Carrie. I just had a shady experience with an alternative cancer treatment hospital, thirty minutes south of the California/Mexican border.”
Carrie Poppy is a writer, podcaster, comedian, and journalist in Los Angeles. She has a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Southern California.
Those were the first words of an email I received from a cancer nurse recently. Nurse K, as I’ll call him, had been in touch here and there as he helped me with a journalistic investigation, but this was the first time he had emailed out of the blue. A patient had asked him to send medical records to a clinic where, he told me, he couldn’t find a single medical professional to speak to on the phone.