Living and dying in Brick City
Subtitle: an E.R. doctor returns home
By: Sampson Davis
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9781400069941; 9780679605188
Subjects: Autobiography; Urban Health Services; Physicians; Internship and Residency; Emergency Medicine; Medically Underserved Area
Description: Presents a narrative exploration of the health-care crisis in inner-city communities as drawn from the author's experiences as an emergency room resident in the Newark community where he grew up, in an account that illuminates the complicated human realities behind the statistics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Brothers; title: Hiding in plain sight; title: Brick City; title: Love hurts; title: Dying for love; title: Baby love; title: Clubbing; title: The fear factor; title: The fish bowl; title: Russian roulette; title: No air; title: Killing us softly; title: Reaching out; title: Unexpected twists.