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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
Ansell’s mentors, including the legendary Quentin Young, to
the multitude of patients whom he and County’s medical staff
labored to diagnose and heal. It is a story about politics,
from contentious union strikes to battles against “patient
dumping”, and public health, depicting the AIDS crisis and
the opening of County’s HIV/AIDS clinic, the first in the city. Finally, it is about a young man’s medical education in
urban America, a coming-of-age story set against a backdrop
of race, segregation and poverty.
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