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.
In its two and a half Centuries of service, there was hardly an epidemic or social catastrophe--or grou.
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.
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