Bari Senecal, 60-something, waits outside the emergency department the morning of August 7 at Columbia Memorial Hospital in the city of Hudson, New York, sitting on her aluminum-frame rollator. Brought by ambulance from the outskirts of Columbia County the night before, she waits for a car service to drive her back. The sky above is hazy with smoke blown in from far-away Canadian forest fires. She drags from a cigarette while she waits. “I fell three stories,” Senecal explains. “I was o...
