Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital (The Inspiration for the NBC

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In the spirit of Oliver Sacks and the inspiration for the NBC drama New Amsterdam, this intensely involving memoir from a Medical Director of Bellevue Hospital looks poignantly at patients’ lives and highlights the complex mind-body connection.
Using the plights of twelve very different patients–from dignitaries at the nearby UN, to supermax prisoners at Riker’s Island, to illegal immigrants, and Wall Street tycoons–Dr. Eric Manheimer “offers far more than remarkable medical dramas: he blends each patient’s personal experiences with their social implications” (Publishers Weekly).
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 own life even as he struggles to save the lives of others.
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005S8O9CO
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Grand Central Publishing
Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 10, 2012
Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1.0 MB
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 369 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1455503896
Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Best Sellers Rank: #38,440 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #4 in Health Care Delivery (Kindle Store) #18 in Medical Encyclopedias #22 in Biographies of Medical Professionals (Kindle Store)
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