Among the 145 people still missing in the collapsed condominium in Surfside, near Miami Beach, is Ruslan Manashirov, a family practice doctor, and his wife, Nicole Doran, a nurse in the Aventura Hospital ER. They’d been married for three months. I met Dr. Manashirov over the phone a year ago. He was empathetic and kind. I had just sent him an angry and aggressive fax: “I’m very concerned about what appears to be negligence on your part,” I wrote. “I’m troubled by this lack of care.” I’d built him up in my mind as someone who must have been too busy to care about my mother, whom I’d been trying to reach for days and days without answer. I’d thought he was either deliberately ignoring me or somehow not aware of how important it was that I hear from him. He was not the doctor who’d given my mother a prescription for Ambien, which had made her problems with her memory appear dramatically much worse. He was the doctor who replaced him. I was worried that the same thing might happen again.
Who we lost
Who we lost
Who we lost
Among the 145 people still missing in the collapsed condominium in Surfside, near Miami Beach, is Ruslan Manashirov, a family practice doctor, and his wife, Nicole Doran, a nurse in the Aventura Hospital ER. They’d been married for three months. I met Dr. Manashirov over the phone a year ago. He was empathetic and kind. I had just sent him an angry and aggressive fax: “I’m very concerned about what appears to be negligence on your part,” I wrote. “I’m troubled by this lack of care.” I’d built him up in my mind as someone who must have been too busy to care about my mother, whom I’d been trying to reach for days and days without answer. I’d thought he was either deliberately ignoring me or somehow not aware of how important it was that I hear from him. He was not the doctor who’d given my mother a prescription for Ambien, which had made her problems with her memory appear dramatically much worse. He was the doctor who replaced him. I was worried that the same thing might happen again.