at New York Hospital and was a professor at Cornell Medical School. He did the original research that adapted the use of ACTH and Cortisone for the treatment of inflammatory eye diseases. She got her first job in journalism in 1970 at United Press International. She also helped found and write for Women: A Journal of Liberation, one of the first feminist journals in the US. Career For the first part of her career she wrote largely about political culture and women's issues, writing Lonely in America (1996), a journalistic account of loneliness as a mass social problem in American society. She also wrote a widely reviewed expose of ballet as work – Off Balance: The Real World of Ballet. The book challenged the myth that everything is beautiful at the ballet. Gordon began writing about healthcare after she had her first baby at a small community hospital outside of Boston. Socialized like so many others, only to focus on the role of physicians in healthcare, she was surprised to discover the importance of nurses in monitoring and managing her labor and delivery, making sure she and her baby were safe, and helping her to cope with her post-labor problems and learn how to take care of her baby. She wrote her first article on nursing, "The Crisis in Caring" for the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine. She then spent three years at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, following three nurses for her book Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines. When President Clinton launched his failed health care initiative, which launched the era of managed care, Gordon began to journalistically document the impact of managed care on patients and caregivers alike. Her book Nursing Against the Odds: How Health Care Cost-Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris Undermine Nursing and Patient Care explored the problems of for-profit driven managed care. In 2000, with the publication of the paperback version of Dana Beth Weinberg's Code Green, for which she wrote a foreword, Gordon and her colleagues Fran Benson and Sioban Nelson, launched the Culture and Politics of Health Care Work Series at Cornell University Press which has published 30 titles on healthcare. In the mid 2000 Gordon began to focus more on patient safety. Concerned about the parlous state of physician/nurse communication, she wrote the play Bedside Manners, with playwright Lisa Hayes in 2013. Awards American Journal of Nursing. 2000