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Article: Medical Drama; What it takes to run a hospital whose patients speak 67 different languages.
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 27, 2008
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HOSPITAL
Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior,
Money, God, and Diversity on Steroids
By Julie Salamon
Penguin Press. 363 pp. $25.95 One thing is clear from Hospital,
an account of a year in the life of Maimonides Medical Center in
Brooklyn: Running a hospital isn't much fun.
It's a million chores made worse by financial worries, ethnic
rivalry, bureaucratic infighting, personal avarice, unreasonable
expectations and near constant complaint. True, it also means saving
lives, relieving pain, restoring health, serving the truly needy
and, once in a while, celebrating the human community in a
transcendent way. It's a necessary job, and therefore an important
one.
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