David A. Ansell,Quentin Young
The amazing tale of "County" is the story of one of America's oldest and most unusual urban hospitals. ,From its 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 wentÂ through the rigorous training process with him, sharing hisÂ vision of saving the world and of resurrecting a hospital onÂ the verge of closing. ,Radical Medicine, is about people, fromÂ Ansellâ€™s mentors, including the legendary Quentin Young,Â to the multitude of patients whom he and Countyâ€™s medicalÂ staff labored to diagnose and heal. It is a story aboutÂ politics, from contentious union strikes to battles againstÂ â€œpatient dumpingâ€, and public health, depicting the AIDSÂ crisis and the opening of Countyâ€™s HIV/AIDS clinic, theÂ first in the city.,Finally, it is about a young manâ€™s medical education inÂ urban America, a coming-of-age story set against a backdropÂ of race, segregation and poverty.
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County: Life, Death and Politics at Chicago's Public Hospital