Twelve Patients

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Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital

By Eric Manheimer

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In Twelve Patients by Eric Manheimer, the author draws on his experiences as the medical director of Bellevue Hospital to present stories of twelve diverse patients. Each story delves into their personal struggles and health challenges, reflecting the broader social issues affecting New York City. Through these narratives, Manheimer provides an insightful view of the healthcare system and its impact on people's lives.
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If you are fascinated by real-life stories from inside a bustling New York City hospital, this book offers a captivating look through the eyes of a doctor. With a blend of medical drama and compassion, it paints a vivid picture of the healthcare system while delving into the personal and emotional journeys of patients and those who care for them.

Twelve Patients

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.

TWELVE PATIENTS is a memoir from the Medical Director of Bellevue Hospital that uses the plights of twelve very different patients to illustrate larger societal issues.

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Using 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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ISBN: 9781455503872

Publisher: Little, Brown & Company

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 July 2013

Country: United States

Imprint: Grand Central Publishing

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 26.0mm

Width: 150.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 391g

Pages: 272

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About the Author

Eric Manheimer, M.D. has been 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.