Eric Manheimer

Broschiertes Buch

Twelve Patients

Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital (the Inspiration for the NBC Drama New Amsterdam)

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Eric Manheimer, M.D. was the Medical Director at Bellevue for over thirteen years and is a Clinical Professor at the New York University School of Medicine. He is an Internist who trained at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York in Internal Medicine. Following his Chief Residency there, he moved to Hanover, New Hampshire where he was a member of Dartmouth Medical School and the Hitchcock Clinic for many years. He has had a long interest in international health working in Haiti and Pakistan and in medical anthropology, history, the social sciences and literature particularly of Latin America. Along with his wife Diana Taylor, who is a University Professor at New York University, Eric travels extensively in Latin America and Mexico. He has two children and one grandchild, who was born at Bellevue.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Grand Central Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 398g
• ISBN-13: 9781455503872
• ISBN-10: 1455503878
• Artikelnr.: 36936547