A review by aneides
Bellevue: A History of America's Oldest Hospital by David M. Oshinsky

3.0

Interesting, if a bit scattershot. This is largely a book about the history of disease and healthcare--especially in New York City... but I suppose one cannot tell the story of Bellevue without painting the larger picture. An awful lot of the book seemed to be about how the medical profession has historically been disdainful of practitioners that are not male WASPs. Infuriating but a bit reassuring: one must be periodically reminded that as shitty as the world is today, a lot of prejudices and limitations have eased.

Oshinsky does make a few mistakes that I caught so I wonder how many I did not catch.