Twelve Patients

Author: Eric Manheimer
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 1455503886

Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital

A former medical director of Bellevue Hospital in New York offers stories from the case histories of twelve patients, ranging from a homeless man to a prominent Wall Street financier, to humanize current social issues.

Twelve Patients : Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital, 9781455503889

Twelve Patients : Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital, ISBN-13: 9781455503889, ISBN-10: 1455503886

A former medical director of Bellevue Hospital in New York offers stories from the case histories of twelve patients, ranging from a homeless man to a prominent Wall Street financier, to humanize current social issues. *Author: Manheimer, Eric, M. . *Subtitle: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital *Publication Date: 2012/07/10 *Number of Pages: 355 *Binding Type: Hardcover *Language: English *Depth: 1. 5 *Width: 6. 5 *Height: 9. 0

"In the spirit of Oliver Sacks Awakenings and the TV series House, Dr. Eric Manheimer's TWELVE PATIENTS is a memoir from the Medical Director of Bellevue Hospital that uses the plights of twelve very different patients-from dignitaries at the nearby UN, to supermax prisoners from Riker's Island, to illegal immigrants, and Wall Street tycoons-to illustrate larger societal issues. Manheimer is not only the medical director of the country's oldest public hospital, but he is also a patient. As the book unfolds, the narrator is diagnosed with cancer, and he is forced to wrestle with the end of his

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