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Title: Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital (the Inspiration for the NBC Drama New Amsterdam)

Author: Eric Manheimer

ISBN: 9781455503872

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Published: 2013

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Edition: Reprint

Number of Pages: 368

Condition: Used Copy

Publisher :
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 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.

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