Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God, and Diversity on Steroids
- ISBN-10
- 1594201714
- ISBN-13
- 9781594201714
- Series
- Hospital
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 363
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- Julie Salamon
Description
Traces a year at Brooklyn's Maimonides Hospital and its new state-of-the-art cancer center, offering insight into the particular challenges being posed by the region's increasingly multicultural populace while exploring how the hospital addresses key issues related to financial, technological, and ethical matters.
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- 2015-01-12
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