Dottoressa: An American Doctor in Rome - Softcover

Susan Levenstein

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1589881397 ISBN 13: 9781589881396

Publisher: Paul Dry Books, 2019

Synopsis

"Susan Levenstein gives us a fascinating account of her life as an American doctor in the Eternal City, including an analysis of Italian healthcare that is both informed and terrifying. A must read for anyone who contemplates relocating to Rome--if they want to live long enough to enjoy their Italian dream."--Matthew Kneale, author of English Passengers and Rome: A History in Seven Sackings

After completing her medical training in New York, Susan Levenstein set off for a one year adventure in Rome. Forty years later, she is still practicing medicine in the Eternal City. In Dottoressa: An American Doctor in Rome Levenstein writes, with love and exasperation, about navigating her career through the renowned Italian tangle of brilliance and ineptitude, sexism and tolerance, rigidity and chaos.

Part memoir--starting with the epic quest for an Italian medical license--and part portrait of Italy from a unique point of view, Dottoressa is packed with vignettes that illuminate the national differences in character, lifestyle, health, and health care between her two countries. Levenstein, who has been called "the wittiest internist on earth," covers everything from hookup culture to neighborhood madmen, Italian hands-off medical training, bidets, the ironies of expatriation, and why Italians always pay their doctor's bills.

About this title

About the Author

Susan Levenstein has been practicing primary care internal medicine in Italy since 1978, treating an international clientele that's featured ambassadors and auto mechanics, millionaires and maids, poets and priests. She is a graduate of Harvard University and Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Edition details

• Publisher: Paul Dry Books
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1589881397
• ISBN 13: 9781589881396
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 270