Jes­si­ca Zit­ter MD MPH prac­tices ICU and Pal­lia­tive Care at the coun­ty hos­pi­tal in Oak­land Cal­i­for­nia. She is the author of Extreme Mea­sures (Pen­guin 2017). Her essays and arti­cles have appeared in the New York Times The Atlantic the Huff­in­g­ton Post the Jour­nal of the Amer­i­can Med­ical Asso­ci­a­tion and oth­er pub­li­ca­tions. Her work is fea­tured in the Oscar-nom­i­nat­ed short doc­u­men­tary Extrem­is avail­able on Netflix.