Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital by Eric Manheimer
Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital

Eric Manheimer

Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital

Eric Manheimer

355 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective slow-paced

Description

The inspiration for the NBC drama New Amsterdam and in the spirit of Oliver Sacks, this intensely involving memoir from a former medical director of a major NYC hospital looks poignantly at patients' lives and reveals the author's own battle with ...

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Moods

reflective 68%
emotional 63%
informative 63%
sad 47%
dark 36%
challenging 31%
inspiring 31%
hopeful 26%
tense 10%
adventurous 5%
funny 5%
lighthearted 5%

Pace

slow 50%
medium 50%

Average rating

3.5

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