UNMASKED: A PANDEMIC DOCTOR’S STORY OF LOVING, LOSING, AND LEAVING MEDICINE explores the journey of an ER doctor who, at the height of the pandemic, nearly destroys herself to save her patients. Months before a vaccine would become widely available, Dr. Molly Phelps supervises “the tent,” a Covid field hospital crowded with patients struggling to breathe. In the darkest days, she feels like Willy Wonka with a single golden ticket, forced to choose the one patient sick enough to jump the line when a rare bed opens up inside the hospital itself – at times because its prior occupant just died from the virus. But as the most brutal wave recedes, Dr. Phelps is left to confront the harsh truth that American healthcare is not the noble calling she believed it to be, emphasizing profitability over the welfare of its dedicated, battered workforce. Pitched for readers of When Breath Becomes Air, UNMASKED is part personal narrative and part harrowing inside view from the pandemic’s front line as our medical system approaches the brink of collapse.