Hospital
Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God, and Diversity on Steroids
مرد، زن، تولد، مرگ، حقارت، به علاوه نوار قرمز، رفتار بد، پول، خدا، و تنوع در استرلینگ
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فرمت کتاب
audiobook
تاریخ انتشار
2008
نویسنده
Karen Whiteناشر
Tantor Media, Inc.شابک
9781400177240
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- نقد و بررسی
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نقد و بررسی
HOSPITAL is dispiriting. This portrait of Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn reminds us that hospital administrators spend an awful lot of time worrying about money, insurance, and paperwork. It also reminds us of America's diversity--an estimated 67 languages are spoken at the hospital; new residents in obstetrics learn to count to 10 in multiple languages. Karen White isn't quite equal to the task of delivering a book with little narrative thread that jumps around from drama to drama and doctor to staff person. Slightly longer pauses between the endless profiles of doctors and nurses and administrators (only a few patients) could help the listener keep up. Inauthentic accents are distracting--Irish nurses that don't sound Irish and South African doctors that don't sound South African. A.B. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
Starred review from March 31, 2008
In this remarkable portrait of the doctors and administrators at Brooklyn’s Maimonides Medical Center, bestselling author Salamon (The Devil’s Candy
; The Christmas Tree
) illustrates the complex machine that is the modern hospital, vying to provide cutting-edge facilities and compassionate care, while making money doing it. Salamon compares Maimonides to a factory, where medicine is “industrialized,” streamlined for efficiency and as dependent on skilled administrators as on talented physicians. Located in a Brooklyn neighborhood known for its simmering mix of ethnicities and cultures, particularly its influential ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, Maimonides is insanely busy, with perhaps the most densely packed emergency room of its size. A new resident in obstetrics learns to “count to ten and say 'push’ in Cantonese, Mandarin, Russian, and at least two other languages that I’m not sure what they were.” Administrators juggle budgets, politics and feuding staff while insurance paperwork increases mistakes and steals treatment time. Although it’s “hard to deconstruct the Tower of Babel when you’re standing in the middle of it,” Salamon succeeds in providing a completely unique, three-dimensional and compellingly human perspective of the demanding work—both frustrating and rewarding—that is not always apparent to hospital patients and their families.
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