As Seen on CBS Mornings

Dr. Williams joins CBS Mornings with Gayle King to discuss his new book The Bodies Keep Coming

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The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal 

In raw and intimate detail, trauma surgeon Dr. Brian H. Williams narrates not only the events of the night that thrust him into the national spotlight, but his grief and anger as a Black doctor on the front lines of trauma care. Working in the physician-writer tradition of Atul Gawande and Damon Tweedy, Williams diagnoses the roots of the violence that plagues us. 

“Profound and powerful.”

“Profound and powerful.”

  • “Riveting. This is a page-turner!”

    MARY KARR, New York Times bestselling author of The Liars’ Club, Cherry, and Lit (Liars’ Club series)

  • “An engrossing account . . . bold and incisive.”

    DR. DAMON TWEEDY, New York Times bestselling author of Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicine

  • “Empathy, anger, humor, and, ultimately, hope accompany you on this literary ride.”

    DR. NANCY SNYDERMAN, surgeon and former medical editor for NBC News

  • “Honest and bold, heart-breaking and brilliant, ultimately, healing and beautiful."

    REV. DR. MICHAEL WATERS, author of Something in the Water: A 21st Century Civil Rights Odyssey

  • “Profound and powerful. The trip left me spellbound.”

    JAMIE THOMPSON, journalist and author of Standoff: Race, Policing, and a Deadly Assault That Gripped a Nation

"Deeply introspective and beautifully written."

"Deeply introspective and beautifully written."

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Dr. Brian H. Williams is an Air Force Academy alumnus, a Harvard-trained surgeon, a former congressional health policy advisor, and a nationally recognized leader at the intersection of public policy and structural racism, gun violence, and health equity.

He has treated gun violence victims for more than two decades. Dr. Williams has served as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Congressional Health Policy Fellow at the National Academy of Medicine, and as a trauma and acute care surgeon at UT Southwestern Medical Center and at the University of Chicago Medicine.