Washington Post Magazine Writer Wins Sidney Award

Last month, freelance writer Dave Jamieson wrote a piece for the Washington Post Magazine about the millions of Americans who use emergency rooms for all their medical issues. The story focused on one “frequent flier” (as these non-insured individuals are called) for the article, “The Treatment of Kenny Farnsworth.”

For his socially-conscious writing, Jamieson has earned this month’s Sidney Award, an honor presented by the Sidney Hillman Foundation for outstanding journalism.

“Jamieson used the classic journalistic technique of focusing on a single individual to illuminate a vast national problem: a dysfunctional health care system which wastes up to $32 billion a year by treating chronic, non-urgent problems with emergency care rather than primary care,” said Sidney Award judge Charles Kaiser.

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