County

life, death, and politics at Chicago's public hospital

221 pages

English language

Published 2010 by Academy Chicago Publishers.

ISBN:
978-0-89733-620-8
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OCLC Number:
694223917

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"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.

6 editions

Subjects

  • Autobiography
  • Physicians
  • County hospitals
  • Cook County Hospital (Chicago, Ill.)
  • County Hospitals
  • Internship and Residency
  • History, 20th Century
  • Biography
  • History

Places

  • Illinois
  • Chicago