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

Salamon, Julie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594201714 ISBN 13: 9781594201714

Publisher: Penguin Pr, 2008

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Review:

a[A] remarkable portraita] Salamon succeeds in providing a completely unique, three-dimensional and compellingly human perspective of the demanding workaboth frustrating and rewarding that is not always apparent to hospital patients and their families.a
a" Publishers Weekly" (starred review)
aThe fine grain of Ms Salamonas observations allows her to paint a compellinga and damningaportrait of a dysfunctional health-care systema] Its careful documentation of financial crises, feuds, personality clashes and, most of all, life-and-death drama it feeds the same appetite for pathos, intrigue, tragedy and redemptiona]as the current plethora of medical programs.a
a" Economist"
aIave never had much interest in hospitals (or been able to sit through an episode of aERa), but as Salamon expertly sucked me into the saga of Maimonides, I realized this was about more than white coats, scalpels and beeping consoles. This place was 21st century America in a microcosm.a
a Laura Miller, "Salon" (lead review)

a A first-rate book . . . ["Hospital"] reads like a novel, elicits equal parts dismay and awe, yet never wavers from truth telling.a
aDan Cryer, "Newsday"
a Immensely heartening. . . . If thereas hope for our overburdened health care system, "Hospital" suggests we can thank the decent, thoughtful men and women laboring overtime to improve the quality of lifeaand deathain our gloriously lumpy American melting pot.a
a"O, The Oprah Magazine"

" A first-rate book . . . ["Hospital"] reads like a novel, elicits equal parts dismay and awe, yet never wavers from truth telling."
-Dan Cryer, "Newsday"
" Immensely heartening. . . . If there's hope for our overburdened health care system, "Hospital" suggests we can thank the decent, thoughtful men and women laboring overtime to improve the quality of life-and death-in our gloriously lumpy American melting pot."
-"O, The Oprah Magazine"

" A first-rate book . . . [Hospital] reads like a novel, elicits equal parts dismay and awe, yet never wavers from truth telling."
-Dan Cryer, Newsday

" Immensely heartening. . . . If there's hope for our overburdened health care system, Hospital suggests we can thank the decent, thoughtful men and women laboring overtime to improve the quality of life-and death-in our gloriously lumpy American melting pot."
-O, The Oprah Magazine

About the Author:

Julie Salamon is the author of six books, including The Devil’s Candy, considered a Hollywood classic about filmmaking gone awry, and The Christmas Tree, a New York Times bestseller. Her other books are the nonfiction, true crime book Facing the Wind, the novel White Lies, a family memoir, The Net of Dreams, and Rambam’s Ladder for which she won the 2005 Ohioana book award. Salamon was a culture writer for The New York Times and a critic and reporter for The Wall Street Journal. In 2006–2007 she was a Kaiser Media Fellow. Her journalism has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Bazaar, and The New Republic.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Pr
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1594201714
• ISBN 13: 9781594201714
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384