Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God and Diversity on Steroids | 
 enlarge | Author: Julie Salamon
Creator: Karen White
Publisher: Tantor Media
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Format: Audiobook, Cd
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Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 12
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 6.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 1400137241
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.110974723
EAN: 9781400137244
ASIN: 1400137241
Publication Date: May 1, 2008
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Product Description
Most people agree that there are complicated issues at play in the delivery of health care today, but those issues may not always be what we think they are. Bestselling author Julie Salamon enlightens us with a thorough, year-long study of a Brooklyn medical center.
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 A Unique Insight July 21, 2008
I am the President & CEO of a PointOne Systems, a start-up healthcare IT company ([...]), and I found Julie Salamon's book Hospital a unique and interesting peak under the hospital sheets which are either tucked so tightly you can't see it or so chaotic you can't make sense of it. However, Ms. Salamon approached the subject of diversity, economics, healthcare and human nature into an easy to read but insightful glimpse at some of our most important American issues. I included a brief review and my own perspective on my executive blog ([...]/). I highly recommend this book.
Engrossing July 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Takes what might have been a dry sociological study of a large Jewish-American metropolitan hospital and infuses it with life through well drawn vignettes of interns, executives, patients, physicians, nurses, hangers-on etc. A very moving and compelling document!
 Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, . . . Who Cares? July 19, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Goes on and on with background details of an endless parade of characters - I really don't know what useful point is served by the book, other than I would hate to work anywhere with a confusing multitude of languages and cultures.
 Hospitals are like this - what should you expect ? July 14, 2008
Hospital is a true story: Julie Salomon spent a year being a pest around the hospital, talking to everybody and everyone, no restrictions besides not revealing patient names. She did a good job, but to anyone that has been working at hospitals, no big news: HMOs are really a pain, red tape increases and increases, physicians take home money is decreasing, personalities clash and some egos can't go inside the hospital, because they are bigger than the biggest door...Some hospitals are losing patients, patients are admited for less and less time and this is not always in their best interests. This is a good book to read if you are a hospital administrator or a young physician, still full of ideals. Mostly of those ideals will perish after fellowship anyway...
A fabulous book June 8, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is a fabulous book. It is easy to forget that it is not fiction; the characters and the situation and setting are fascinating and their depth and complexities so well portrayed. The story itself is at once inspiring, depressing, hopeful and overwhelming. Maimonides Hospital is unique, but really this book is about every medical practice. Over and over again I felt an odd sense that this was about my practice in a small Maine town... a practice that is homogenous in every way that is easily described in demographics, but as diverse as every face and family and experience. Ms. Salamon gets it exactly right: that health care is emotional and spiritual and about human dynamics, both beautiful and ugly. Her writing of the Maimonides story so perfectly shows how nothing is simple in health care and yet it really is all very simple. Because this book truly is about humankind and our survival together, it is certainly a great read for anyone, not just readers in the medical field. (But a must read for everyone in the medical field!) (Jennifer Oddleifson)
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