2005 Pulitzer Prize | Public Service
Albert Johnson, 46, who was admitted for a severe spider bite on his hand, sits outside the hospital for a smoke. “I brought it in a jar, I was sleeping and I felt something biting me.”
(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
Los Angeles Times reporters Charles Ornstein, Tracy Weber and photographer Robert Gauthier for exposing deadly medical problems and racial injustice at a major public hospital
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