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A review by rdlevitt
Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital by David M. Oshinsky
5.0
I. LOVED. THIS. BOOK. It was an amazing balance of nonfiction research and great storytelling. Some stuff I already knew, but a lot of it was new information to me and the narrative flowed in a way where I didn't feel like I was reading a textbook.
It's truly amazing how important Bellevue has been for American medical history. It gave me a newfound appreciation for public health and public hospitals. It also made me exceedingly glad to experience modern medicine as it is today, rather than being a patient in the past (the descriptions of surgery and treatments pre-germ theory and pre-anesthesia were truly gruesome).
It's rare that I'm sad when a book is over, but that's what happened this time.
It's truly amazing how important Bellevue has been for American medical history. It gave me a newfound appreciation for public health and public hospitals. It also made me exceedingly glad to experience modern medicine as it is today, rather than being a patient in the past (the descriptions of surgery and treatments pre-germ theory and pre-anesthesia were truly gruesome).
It's rare that I'm sad when a book is over, but that's what happened this time.