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County: Life, Death and Politics at Chicago's Public Hospital
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County: Life, Death and Politics at Chicago’s Public Hospital

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The amazing tale of County is the story of one of America’s oldest and most unusual urban hospitals. From its inception as a poor house dispensing free medical care to indigents, Chicago’s Cook County Hospital has been renowned as a teaching hospital and the healthcare provider of last resort for the city’s uninsured. Ansell 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. Ansell writes of the hundreds of doctors who underwent rigorous training with him. He writes of politics, from contentious union strikes to battles against patient dumping, and public health, depicting the AIDS crisis and the Out of Printening of County’s HIV/AIDS clinic, the first in the city. And finally it is a coming-of-age story for a young doctor set against a backdrOut of Print of race, segregation, and poverty. This is a riveting account.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Academy Chicago Publishers
Country
United States
Date
9 August 2011
Pages
256
ISBN
9780897336208

The amazing tale of County is the story of one of America’s oldest and most unusual urban hospitals. From its inception as a poor house dispensing free medical care to indigents, Chicago’s Cook County Hospital has been renowned as a teaching hospital and the healthcare provider of last resort for the city’s uninsured. Ansell 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. Ansell writes of the hundreds of doctors who underwent rigorous training with him. He writes of politics, from contentious union strikes to battles against patient dumping, and public health, depicting the AIDS crisis and the Out of Printening of County’s HIV/AIDS clinic, the first in the city. And finally it is a coming-of-age story for a young doctor set against a backdrOut of Print of race, segregation, and poverty. This is a riveting account.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Academy Chicago Publishers
Country
United States
Date
9 August 2011
Pages
256
ISBN
9780897336208