County
Subtitle: life, death, and politics at Chicago's public hospital
By: by David Ansell
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780897336208
Subjects: Autobiography; Physicians; County hospitals; Cook County Hospital (Chicago, Ill.); County Hospitals; Internship and Residency; History, 20th Century; Biography; History
Description: "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."--Amazon.com.
Table of contents: title: Cook County Hospital; title: 1989 : you should write this book; title: 1974 : wounded pigeon; title: 1977 : Cook County Hospital : we'd fit right in; title: 1978 : sink or swim; title: 1978 : the cure; title: 1978 : is there a doctor in the house?; title: General medicine clinic; title: ER; title: "Some call it murder"; title: 1979-1982 : senior medical resident; title: 1981 : county will do this to you; title: 1983-1986 : amateur sociologists : moving on; title: Working against the odds; title: 1984 : the breast cancer screening program; title: 1985 : I'm sticking to the union; title: 1989-1992 : designed to fail; title: AIDS and the lessons learned; title: Crossing the threshold; title: 1978-2004 : 'til death do we part; title: 2001 : "last rounds"; title: 2008 : "Deja vu all over again".