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Life, Death and Politics at Chicago's Public Hospital
Academy Chicago Publishers
June 2011
On Sale: May 31, 2011
256 pages
ISBN: 0897336208
EAN: 9780897336208
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
The amazing tale of "County" is the story of one of America's oldest and most unusual urban hospitals. From it's inception as a "Poor House" dispensing free medical care to indigents, Chicago's Cook County Hospital has been both a renowned teaching hospital and the healthcare provider of last resort for the city's uninsured. COUNTY covers more than thirty years of its history, beginning in the late 1970s when the author began his internship, to the "Final Rounds" when the enormous iconic Victorian hospital building was replaced and hundreds of former trainees gathered to bid it an emotional farewell. Ansell writes of the hundreds of doctors who went through the rigorous training process with him, sharing his vision of saving the world and of resurrecting a hospital on the verge of closing. Radical Medicine is about people, from Ansellβs mentors, including the legendary Quentin Young, to the multitude of patients whom he and Countyβs medical staff labored to diagnose and heal. It is a story about politics, from contentious union strikes to battles against βpatient dumpingβ, and public health, depicting the AIDS crisis and the opening of Countyβs HIV/AIDS clinic, the first in the city. Finally, it is about a young manβs medical education in urban America, a coming-of-age story set against a backdrop of race, segregation and poverty.
 Media BuzzFresh Air - NPR - June 15, 2011
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