Promises Kept: A Southern Surgeon's reflections of mid twentieth-century medicine (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781440168079)

Grady Memorial Hospital, one of America's major teaching hospitals, opened in 1892 to serve "the underserved of Atlanta."
The author, a naïve young man arrives at Grady to drive the ambulance before starting medical school. Four years later he begins his surgical training as an intern.
It was a time of dramatic social transformation from the Jim Crow era of the racially segregated 1950s to the Civil Rights movement and the racially integrated 1960s.
As a young surgeon-in-training, he is confronted daily with tragedy and threads of humor and must learn to reconcile the conflicting experiences while providing care for an often forgotten and neglected population.

Author: Jerald Lee Watts
ISBN-10: 1440168075
ISBN-13: 9781440168079
Publisher: iUniverse
Language: English
Published: 09/10/2009
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d