Brooklyn Beginnings: A Geriatrician's Odyssey

by Michael Gordon

2022 REVISED EDITION

Helicopter evacuations, teaching West Bank Arab nursing students, life and death medical decisions, aging Holocaust survivors, heart-breaking ethical decisions -- Brooklyn Beginnings immerses the reader in the life stories of Dr. Michael Gordon who helped forge contemporary Geriatrics in his adopted Canada. His Brighton Beach childhood, his initially quiescent Jewish roots, and a unique Lithuanian and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1440134235
• ISBN13: 9781440134234
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"