Name: Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital (in English)
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Author: Eric Manheimer
ISBN: 9781455503872

portada Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Eric Manheimer

Publisher

Grand Central Publishing

Year

2013

Language

English

Pages

368

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.6 x 15.0 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.36 kg.

ISBN

1455503878

ISBN13

9781455503872

Synopsis "Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital (in English)"

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.

Eric Manheimer

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Profesor de medicina en la Escuela de Medicina de la Universidad de Nueva York. Fue director médico del Centro Hospitalario Bellevue desde 1997 hasta 2012 y se ha desempeñado como miembro de la Escuela de Medicina de Dortmouth y de la Clínica Hitckcock. A lo largo de su trayectoria ha tenido un gran interés en temas de salud internacional que lo han llevado a trabajar en el ámbito de salud pública en Haití, Pakistán y América Latina.

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