Emergency doctor
By: Edward Ziegler, in cooperation with Lewis R. Goldfrank
Contributors: Goldfrank, Lewis R., 1941-
Edition: 1st Perennial ed.
Publisher: Perennial
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780060595029
Subjects: Goldfrank, Lewis R., 1941-; Goldfrank, Lewis R., 1941-; Bellevue Hospital.; Bellevue Hospital.; Emergency physicians -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.; Emergency medicine -- Case studies.; Emergency Medicine -- Personal Narratives.; Emergency Service, Hospital -- Personal Narratives.; Physicians -- Personal Narratives.
Genres: Biography.; Case studies.; Personal Narratives.
Description: Hundreds of people slam through its doors every day: gun-shot cops, battered kids, drug addicts, and suicides, destitute drunks, homeless people, AIDS sufferers, and accident victims. It's a bizarre parade of humanity looking for help -- in the one place they know they can find it. Welcome to the frontline trenches of medicine: the emergency room of the legendary Bellevue Hospital. Here, an army of doctors and nurses faces the onslaught of young and old, rich and ragged, sick and dying. All day, all night. All year.This is their story -- an around-the-clock drama of the unexpected: a crane falling on a hapless pedestrian; a crazed executive wearing two-thirds of a three-piece suit; a pretty paralegal aide struggling with an on-the-job cocaine overdose; a trauma victim of an East River helicopter crash clinging to life. It's terrifying, tragic, triumphant ... and true.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, c1987.