County: Life, Death, and Politics at Chicago's Public Hospital [Unabridged] [Audible Audio Edition]
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The amazing tale of County is the story of one of America's oldest and most unusual urban hospitals. From it's inception as a "Poor House" dispensing free medical care to indigents, Chicago's Cook County Hospital has been both a renowned teaching hospital and the healthcare provider of last resort for the city's uninsured. County 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 and hundreds of former trainees gathered to bid it an emotional farewell.
Ansell writes of the hundreds of doctors who went through the rigorous training process with him, sharing his vision of saving the world and of resurrecting a hospital on the verge of closing. County is about people, from Ansell's mentors, including the legendary Quentin Young, to the multitude of patients whom he and County's medical staff labored to diagnose and heal. It is a story about politics, from contentious union strikes to battles against "patient dumping", and public health, depicting the AIDS crisis and the opening of County's HIV/AIDS clinic, the first in the city.
Finally, it is about a young man's medical education in urban America, a coming-of-age story set against a backdrop of race, segregation and poverty.
David A. Ansell, MD., a Chicago-based physician and health activist, has been an internal-medicine physician since training at Cook County Hospital in the late 1970s, where he spent seventeen years. Now chief medical officer at Rush University Medical Center, he sees patients, teaches, volunteers as a doctor at a Chicago free clinic, and participates in medical missions to the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
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- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 7 hours and 10 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
- Audible.com Release Date: October 17, 2011
- Language: English
- ASIN: B005X9AOC2
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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