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Twelve Patients

Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital (The Inspiration for the NBC Drama New Amsterdam)

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Twelve Patients

By: Eric Manheimer MD
Narrated by: Eric Manheimer MD
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In the spirit of Oliver Sacks and the inspiration for the NBC drama New Amsterdam, this memoir from a Medical Director of Bellevue Hospital looks poignantly at patients' lives, highlighting the complex mind-body connection.

"As intensely involving as any scripted for a television medical drama." —The New York Daily News

Twelve Patients shows the plights of twelve very different patients—from dignitaries at the nearby UN, to supermax prisoners at Riker's Island, to illegal immigrants, and Wall Street tycoons.

Dr. Eric Manheimer is not only the medical director of the country's oldest public hospital—he is also a patient. As the book unfolds, the narrator is diagnosed with cancer and is forced to wrestle with the end of his own life even as he struggles to save the lives of others.

"This book is not only brilliant, it is deeply moving, and as socially and politically important as anything I have read over the past ten years." —James F. Gilligan, psychiatrist and author Medical Medicine & Health Care Industry Physician & Patient Policy & Administration Professionals & Academics Medicine Health Health Care Celebrity Mental Health Substance abuse
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such an enjoyable listen. A real eye opener into American healthcare. So glad I live in Australia

Fantastic

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It’s unfortunate that the author narrated his own book, it has spoiled what would’ve been a good book. His reading is dull with no inflections in his voice. He made the book boring with his one toned voice.

Narration awful

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this book got me to look at life differently and think hard about what we take for granted... Must read ...

You look at life and death differently after this

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