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Lewis, Sydney; Ehrenreich, Barbara Hospital: An Oral History of Cook County Hospital
New York, New York, U.S.A. The New Press 1994 1565841387 / 9781565841383 Hard Cover Fine Fine
A photo of this book is available. Like-new condition. Appears unread. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price insid edustcover: $25.00. NO writing, marks or tears. Tight spine, bright pages. 350 pages. Number line: 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Synopsis The future of medical care is now high on the nation's political agenda, but few understand what it is really like to treat America's ill in the very battle trenches of American medicine. In Hospital, Sydney Lewis, long-time assistant to Studs Terkel, uses Chicago's Cook County Hospital as a telling microcosm of both the human and the social problems we face as a country. Lewis's probing interviews with the widest possible range of people involved in running the hospital - from a former director to an elevator operator, from a security guard to the head of the trauma unit - elicit extraordinary stories and frank assessments of the American medical system in general and Cook County Hospital in particular. Here are the exasperated yet hopeful accounts of the emergency-room doctors who, horrified by the bullet-riddled bodies of the same teenagers month after month, have started an anti-violence education program in the schools. Here is an angry account of the rise of tuberculosis, a disease long thought eliminated, as well as the more familiar tribulations of those dealing with AIDS, drugs, and the other plagues of postindustrial society. Here, too, are older doctors recalling the corrupt and patronage-driven old days, when a note from your alderman was enough to get a job or a few months of bed rest for an obstreperous relative. Annotation Based on interviews w/a resident/clinicians/an elevator operator/police officer/nursing student/administrators/etc. Publishers Weekly These brief, first-person narratives by physicians and other, often international, staff members of Chicago's venerable, 87-year-old Cook County Hospital are recorded and introduced by freelance writer Lewis, a former assistant to Studs Terkel. Eloquently, she demonstrates how needs overwhelm capacity in America's large public hospitals, which ``have become, in effect, a national health care system.'' In emergency, interns and residents practice ``battlefield medicine,'' caring for the mostly minority victims of violence, accidents and social deprivation, with patients serving as ``teaching materials.'' Most of the medical-service employees and patients depicted, from the head of the Pediatrics Trauma Center to a female security guard, share the same dedication to County and yearn for health care reform. A gripping report from the trenches, this is the author's debut book. (Jan.)
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Ehrenreich, Barbara Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
New York, New York, U.S.A. Owl Books 2002 0805063897 / 9780805063899 Trade Paperback Fine
Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine, bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 230 pages. Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job -- any job -- could be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on six to seven dollars an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered as a woefully inexperienced homemaker returning to the workforce. So began a grueling, hair-raising, and darkly funny odyssey through the underside of working America. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, Ehrenreich worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you intend to live indoors. Nickel and Dimed reveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity -- a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. Read it for the smoldering clarity of Ehrenreich's perspective and for a rare view of how "prosperity" looks from the bottom. You will never see anything -- from a motel bathroom to a restaurant meal -- quite the same way again.
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Ehrenreich, Barbara Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Henry Holt 2002 0805063897 / 9780805063899 Trade Paperback Fine
Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine, clean pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 230 pages. The New York Times bestseller, and one of the most talked about books of the year, Nickel and Dimed has already become a classic of undercover reportage. Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that any job equals a better life. But how can anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 to $7 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich moved from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, taking the cheapest lodgings available and accepting work as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner, nursing-home aide, and Wal-Mart salesperson. She soon discovered that even the "lowliest" occupations require exhausting mental and physical efforts. And one job is not enough; you need at least two if you intend to live indoors. Nickel and Dimed reveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity -- a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate strategies for survival. Instantly acclaimed for its insight, humor, and passion, this book is changing the way America perceives its working poor.
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