County: Life, Death and Politics at Chicago's Public Hospital [Kindle Edition]
Author: David A. Ansell Quentin Young | Language: English | ISBN: B00L0LYC20 | Format: PDF, EPUB
County: Life, Death and Politics at Chicago's Public Hospital
Direct download links available County: Life, Death and Politics at Chicago's Public Hospital for everyone book with Mediafire Link Download Link 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. Books with free ebook downloads available County: Life, Death and Politics at Chicago's Public Hospital [Kindle Edition]
Direct download links available County: Life, Death and Politics at Chicago's Public Hospital for everyone book with Mediafire Link Download Link 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. Books with free ebook downloads available County: Life, Death and Politics at Chicago's Public Hospital [Kindle Edition]
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- Print Length: 256 pages
- Publisher: Chicago Review Press; 1st Edition edition (May 1, 2014)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00L0LYC20
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When I read Dr. David Ansell's book ,County, Life ,Death and Politics at Chicago's Public Hospital, I wondered if
the county hospital he studied and worked at for 17 years was the same place I studied and worked at for 40 years.
He accurately describes a facility that was decrepit ,poorly equipped, with no air conditioning in sweltering wards,
overcrowded with the county's poorest and sickest; I never saw the rats and roaches.He repeatedly discredits the
medical and nursing staff , the heart and soul of the hospital .Could he not have presented a more balanced
portrayal of the County Hospital and still have made his case for a single payer health care system?
I graduated from Cook County School of Nursing in 1963. I am President of the Board of Directors of the Alumni
Association of Cook County School of Nursing.I worked at the hospital from 1972-2008, 32 of those years as a
Nurse Practitioner on both surgical and medical services . My duties took me to every ward, clinic,department and
nook and cranny of the complex. I worked along side intelligent, dedicated, caring nurses and doctors, not the lazy,
absentee attendings or the" jaded, uncaring, incompetent" nurses Ansell recalls. He apparently never encountered
any of the dedicated, overworked nurses, who so often clued in cocky,arrogant and "clueless" interns.
I am offended by his general disregard for nurses throughout his book as well as his disparaging remarks about the
senior medical staff. I find it hard to believe that after 17 years Ansell could only single out one Nurse Practitioner in
the clinic who misdiagnosed a patient (describing her as an evil-eyed ,bleached and lacquered blond ) and another
nurse as "packed" into a "too-tight" uniform.
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