Author: David A. Ansell
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 0897336208
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The amazing tale of “County” is the story of one of America’s oldest and most unusual urban hospitals. From its inception as a “poor house” dispensing free medical care to indigents, Chicago’s Cook County Hospital has been renowned as a teaching hospital and the healthcare provider of last resort for the city’s uninsured. Ansell covers more than thirty years of its history, beginning in the late 1970s when the author began his internship, to the “Final Rounds” when the enormous iconic Victorian hospital building was replaced. Ansell writes of the hundreds of doctors who underwent rigorous training with him. He writes of politics, from contentious union strikes to battles against “patient dumping,” and public health, depicting the AIDS crisis and the Out of Printening of County’s HIV/AIDS clinic, the first in the city. And finally it is a coming-of-age story for a young doctor set against a backdrOut of Print of race, segregation, and poverty. This is a riveting account.
County
Author: David A. Ansell
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 0897336208
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The amazing tale of “County” is the story of one of America’s oldest and most unusual urban hospitals. From its inception as a “poor house” dispensing free medical care to indigents, Chicago’s Cook County Hospital has been renowned as a teaching hospital and the healthcare provider of last resort for the city’s uninsured. Ansell covers more than thirty years of its history, beginning in the late 1970s when the author began his internship, to the “Final Rounds” when the enormous iconic Victorian hospital building was replaced. Ansell writes of the hundreds of doctors who underwent rigorous training with him. He writes of politics, from contentious union strikes to battles against “patient dumping,” and public health, depicting the AIDS crisis and the Out of Printening of County’s HIV/AIDS clinic, the first in the city. And finally it is a coming-of-age story for a young doctor set against a backdrOut of Print of race, segregation, and poverty. This is a riveting account.
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 0897336208
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The amazing tale of “County” is the story of one of America’s oldest and most unusual urban hospitals. From its inception as a “poor house” dispensing free medical care to indigents, Chicago’s Cook County Hospital has been renowned as a teaching hospital and the healthcare provider of last resort for the city’s uninsured. Ansell covers more than thirty years of its history, beginning in the late 1970s when the author began his internship, to the “Final Rounds” when the enormous iconic Victorian hospital building was replaced. Ansell writes of the hundreds of doctors who underwent rigorous training with him. He writes of politics, from contentious union strikes to battles against “patient dumping,” and public health, depicting the AIDS crisis and the Out of Printening of County’s HIV/AIDS clinic, the first in the city. And finally it is a coming-of-age story for a young doctor set against a backdrOut of Print of race, segregation, and poverty. This is a riveting account.
History of Cook County, Illinois--
Author: Weston Arthur Goodspeed
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
History of Cook County, Illinois
Author: Alfred Theodore Andreas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
History of Cook County, Illinois--
Author: Weston Arthur Goodspeed
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
Chicago and Cook County Sources
Author: Loretto Dennis Szucs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Historical Review of Chicago and Cook County and Selected Biography
Author: Arba Nelson Waterman
Publisher:
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Category : Chicago
Languages : en
Pages : 638
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Publisher:
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Category : Chicago
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
The Key to Government in Chicago and Suburban Cook County
Author: Alfred Saucedo
Publisher: Citizens Information Service
ISBN: 9780971596702
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Publisher: Citizens Information Service
ISBN: 9780971596702
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Rand McNally 2004 Chicago and Cook County Street Guide
Author: Rand McNally and Company (NA)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780528998980
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9780528998980
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages :
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Politics and Politicians of Chicago
Author:
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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
History of Cook County
Author: Newton Bateman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cook County (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cook County (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 802
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