Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital (the Inspiration for the NBC Drama New Amsterdam)

by Eric Manheimer

Book Overview

In the spirit of Oliver Sacks and the inspiration for the NBC drama New Amsterdam, this intensely involving memoir from a Medical Director of Bellevue Hospital looks poignantly at patients' lives and highlights the complex mind-body connection.

Using the plights of twelve very different patients--from dignitaries at the nearby UN, to supermax prisoners at Riker's Island, to illegal immigrants, and Wall Street tycoons--Dr. Eric...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1455503878
• ISBN13: 9781455503872
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"