Download or read book A History of Surgery at Cook County Hospital written by Patrick Guinan and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time, specifically ranging from 1866 until the end of the 1950s, almost all of the attending staff at Cook County Hospital (CCH)-and thus the instructors who prepared physicians for their roles in the world-were unpaid volunteers. In all large public teaching hospitals, like CCH, appointment to the staff was both an honor and public recognition of the appointee's status, his or her reputation among his or her peers. Prior to the advent of all-fulltime salaried positions in the 1970s and 1980s, nearly all of the attending staff were non-paid volunteers. Consequently, for all of CCH history up to that point, the list of surgical faculty is a virtual "Who's Who" of Chicago surgeons. This book examines the development of the medical disciplines that historically fell under the aegis of the department of surgery at CCH and other similar institutions. The individuals who taught successive new generations of surgeons were not necessarily famed in their time. Already respected, however, they gained legendary status as their former students realized just how effectively these men had taught them. From relevant anecdotes about individual interactions with these instructors to a collection of "quotable quotes" and historical vignettes and personal experiences from physicians and nurses, this books looks at a unique time and collection of individuals who conspired to achieve something remarkable. It is more than a history of a building on Chicago's west side-it is an inside look at the people who made Cook County Hospital a center of top-flight medical education and world-class care through the years.

Download or read book History of medicine and surgery and physicians and surgeons of Chicago written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Bit of History of the Cook County Hospital written by Henry M. Lyman and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of the Cook County Hospital from 1876 to the Present Time written by Frank Billings and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book County written by David A. Ansell and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 renowned as a teaching hospital and the healthcare provider of last resort for the city’s uninsured. Ansell 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. Ansell writes of the hundreds of doctors who underwent rigorous training with him. He writes of politics, from contentious union strikes to battles against “patient dumping,” and public health, depicting the AIDS crisis and the Out of Printening of County’s HIV/AIDS clinic, the first in the city. And finally it is a coming-of-age story for a young doctor set against a backdrOut of Print of race, segregation, and poverty. This is a riveting account.

Download or read book Early History of the Cook County Hospital to 1870 written by William E. Quine and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cook County ICU written by Cory Franklin and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inside look at one of the nation's most famous public hospitals, Cook County, as seen through the eyes of its longtime Director of Intensive Care, Dr. Cory Franklin. Filled with stories of strange medical cases and unforgettable patients culled from a thirty-year career in medicine, Cook County ICU offers readers a peek into the inner workings of a hospital. Author Dr. Cory Franklin, who headed the hospital’s intensive care unit from the 1970s through the 1990s, shares his most unique and bizarre experiences, including the deadly Chicago heat wave of 1995, treating some of the first AIDS patients in the country before the disease was diagnosed, the nurse with rare Munchausen syndrome, the first surviving ricin victim, and the famous professor whose Parkinson’s disease hid the effects of the wrong medication. Surprising, darkly humorous, heartwarming, and sometimes tragic, these stories provide a big-picture look at how the practice of medicine has changed over the years, making it an enjoyable read for patients, doctors, and anyone with an interest in medicine.

Download or read book History of Cook County Illinois written by Weston Arthur Goodspeed and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Centennial History of the Chicago Surgical Society written by B. Herold Griffith and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ward 41 written by John G. Raffensperger and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictionalized account of a pediatric surgeon's internship at Chicago's Cook County Hospital during the 1950s.

Download or read book A Short History of Surgery written by Kenneth M. Begelman and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of medicine and surgery is the history of human civilization. This book is intended for the busy medical student, surgical house officer, practicing surgeon, or interested layperson. It is a concise treatise of the development and history of surgical practice and the surgeon from antiquity to the present day. It not only looks back to where we have been but also looks forward to where we might still go. The book is a compilation of medical student lectures given at The University of Chicago for over 15 years.

Download or read book Historical Review of Chicago and Cook County and Selected Biography written by Arba Nelson Waterman and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Old Lady on Harrison Street written by John G. Raffensperger and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a great hospital, from its origin as a poorhouse to modern times. It chronicles the social problems, and political chicanery, as interns, physicians, and nurses struggle to care for the sick poor of Chicago. Since its founding, Cook County Hospital has been a center for medical education and research and has always been renowned for its work in trauma and diseases which afflict the poor and downtrodden.

Download or read book International Abstracts of Surgery written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Surgical Clinics of Chicago written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Surgery Gynecology Obstetrics written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Of Life and Limb written by Justin Barr and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the history of arterial repair, Of Life and Limb investigates the process of surgical innovation by exploring the social, technological, institutional, and martial dynamics shaping the introduction and adoption of a new operation.