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Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God and Diversity on Steroids

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Consider this book a full-immersion experiment. Instead of examining health care from afar, investigative journalist Julie Salamon spent one-year tracking activities at Brooklyn's Maimonides Hospital, which has the only cancer center in a borough of 2.5 million people. What she discovered there was more complicated and less formulaic than any politician's nostrums. Salamon's Hospital has all the drama of ER or House, with even more human complexity. That shouldn't surprise us: As Maimonides' chairman of the board noted, "Hospitals have a lot in common with the movie business. You've got your talent, entrepreneurs, ambition, ego stroking, the business versus the creative part. The big difference is that in the hospital you don't get second chances. Movies are make-believe. This is real life."

Language: English

Format: MP3 Book

Release: May 19, 2008

ISBN 13: 9781400177240

Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God and Diversity on Steroids

0/5 ( ratings)

Consider this book a full-immersion experiment. Instead of examining health care from afar, investigative journalist Julie Salamon spent one-year tracking activities at Brooklyn's Maimonides Hospital, which has the only cancer center in a borough of 2.5 million people. What she discovered there was more complicated and less formulaic than any politician's nostrums. Salamon's Hospital has all the drama of ER or House, with even more human complexity. That shouldn't surprise us: As Maimonides' chairman of the board noted, "Hospitals have a lot in common with the movie business. You've got your talent, entrepreneurs, ambition, ego stroking, the business versus the creative part. The big difference is that in the hospital you don't get second chances. Movies are make-believe. This is real life."

Language: English

Format: MP3 Book

Release: May 19, 2008

ISBN 13: 9781400177240

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