Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital by David M. Oshinsky

Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital

David M. Oshinsky

384 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history science emotional informative medium-paced

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From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine. Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place i...

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