County: Life, Death and Politics at Chicago's Public Hospital (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 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.

Author: David A. Ansell
ISBN-10: 0897336208
ISBN-13: 9780897336208
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2011
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.38w x 0.93d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/25/2011
Booklist 07/01/2011 pg. 8