Bellevue

BellevueBy: David Oshinsky From a Pulitzer Prize winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine. Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled crime victims, vicious psychopaths, assorted derelicts, lunatics, and exotic disease sufferers. In its two and a half centuries of service, there

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