Living and Dying in Brick City
An E.R. Doctor Returns Home
New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2013]
Format: Ebook
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Edition: First edition.
Description: 1 online resource (241 pages)
Presents a narrative exploration of the health-care crisis in inner-city communities as drawn from the author's experiences as an emergency room resident in the Newark community where he grew up, in an account that illuminates the complicated human realities behind the statistics.
Contents:
Brothers -- Hiding in plain sight -- Brick City -- Love hurts -- Dying for love -- Baby love -- Clubbing -- The fear factor -- The fish bowl -- Russian roulette -- No air -- Killing us softly -- Reaching out -- Unexpected twists.
Subjects:
Davis, Sampson.
African American physicians -- New Jersey -- Biography.
Emergency physicians -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Biography.
Emergency medicine -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Case studies.
Medicine -- Study and teaching (Internship)
Urban health -- United States.
Minorities -- Health and hygiene -- United States.
Physicians -- New Jersey -- Personal Narratives.
Emergency medicine -- New Jersey.
Davis, Sampson.
African American physicians -- New Jersey -- Biography.
Emergency physicians -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Biography.
Emergency medicine -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Case studies.
Medicine -- Study and teaching (Internship)
Urban health -- United States.
Minorities -- Health and hygiene -- United States.
Physicians -- New Jersey -- Personal Narratives.
Emergency medicine -- New Jersey.
ISBN:
9780679605188
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-241).
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-241).
Description based on print version record.