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In 2005, Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, unveiled a fresh state-of-the-art, multimillion-dollar cancer center. Determined to understand the whole spectrum of factors that know what kind of health care people receive in this country, bestselling author Julie Salamon spent twelve months tracking the progess of the guts and getting to know the characters who make a healthcare facility run. Situated in a community where sixty-seven different languages are spoken, Maimonides is a research study for the particular varieties of concerns that arise in institutions that serve an extremely multicultural American demographic. Granted astonishing access by a healthcare facility higher-ups, Salamon followed the doctors, patients, administrators, nurses, ambulance drivers, cooks, and cleaning staff. She explored not just the action on the ground but also the financial, ethical, technological, socioloical, and cultural matters that a healthcare facility commuity encounters every day.Drawing on her skills as interviewer, observer, and social critic, Salamon presents the storyline of modern medicine. She draws out the inner and external politics machinations that exist between doctors and staff as well as between hospital and community. And she grounds the science and emotion of medical drama in the financial realities of operating a huge, private institution that has to cope with such issues as adapting to the precise needs of immigrant groups that make up a sizable and growing portion of our society.Salamon exposes struggles both profound and humdrum: bitter internal feuds, warm personal cable connections, comedy, egoism, greed, love, and damage; rabbinic edicts to cope with, as well as imams and herbalists and local politicians; system foul-ups, shortages of everything except forms to complete, recalcitrant and greedy insurance reimbursement systems, and the surprising difficulty to getting doctors to wash their hands. This is actually the dynamic universe of small and large concerns and personalities that, taken together, determine the nature of your care.
