Cory Franklin

Doctor Cory Franklin was Director of Medical Intensive Care at Cook County (Illinois) Hospital for 25 years. Before retiring, he wrote over 80 medical articles in books and professional journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and the Hastings Center Report. He worked as a technical advisor to actor, Harrison Ford and was a role model for the physician character Ford played in the 1993 film, The Fugitive. His work has been published in The New York Times, The New York Post, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Jerusalem Post, and The Chicago Sun Times as well as being excerpted in The New York Review of Books. His books include Chicago Flashbulbs: A Quarter Century of News, Politics, Sports, and Show Business (2013), Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases (2015), and The Doctor Will See You Now (2018). He lives in Wilmette, Illinois.