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Eric Manheimer, M.D. has been the Medical Director at Bellevue for over thirteen years and is a Clinical Professor at the New York University School of Medicine. He is an Internist who trained at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York in Internal Medicine. Following his Chief Residency there, he moved to Hanover, New Hampshire where he was a member of Dartmouth Medical School and the Hitchcock Clinic for many years.
He has had a long interest in international health working in Haiti and Pakistan and in medical anthropology, history, the social sciences and literature particularly of Latin America. Along with his wife Diana Taylor, who is a University Professor at New York University, Eric travels extensively in Latin America and Mexico. He has two children and one grandchild, who was born at Bellevue.
Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital (The Inspiration for the NBC
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9781455503896
- Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
- Publication date: 07/10/2012
- Sold by: Hachette Digital, Inc.
- Format: eBook
- Pages: 272
- Sales rank: 24,889
- File size: 832 KB
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In the spirit of Oliver Sacks Awakenings and the TV series House, Dr. Eric Manheimer's TWELVE PATIENTS is a memoir from the Medical Director of Bellevue Hospital that uses the plights of twelve very different patients-from dignitaries at the nearby UN, to supermax prisoners from Riker's Island, to illegal immigrants, and Wall Street tycoons-to illustrate larger societal issues. Manheimer is not only the medical director of the country's oldest public hospital, but he is also a patient. As the book unfolds, the narrator is diagnosed with cancer, and he is forced to wrestle with the end of his own life even as he struggles to save the lives of others.
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For more than a dozen years, the author of this book has served as the Medical Director at Bellevue Hospital, but this book is far more than an on-the-spot account of the oldest public hospital in America. Instead, Dr. Eric Manheimer provides us with something even more meaningful. By tracing the stories of twelve very different patients, he illuminates seldom-seen connections between medical diseases and societal issues, including income disparity, immigration, mental illness, teenage depression, gang violence, and knowledge of health issues. Health care has never seemed more immediate. (P.S. Twelve Patients has already been compared to Oliver Sacks' Awakenings and Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.)