Twelve Patients
Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital
Ranked #66 in Amsterdam
The inspiration for the NBC drama New Amsterdam and in the spirit of Oliver Sacks, this intensely involving memoir from a former medical director of a major NYC hospital looks poignantly at patients' lives and reveals the author's own battle with cancer.
Dr. Manheimer describes 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.
Manheimer was not only the medical director of the country's oldest public hospital for over 13 years, but... more
Dr. Manheimer describes 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.
Manheimer was not only the medical director of the country's oldest public hospital for over 13 years, but... more
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