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 enlarge | Author: Julie Salamon
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 8060
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.4
ISBN: 1594201714
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.110974723
EAN: 9781594201714
ASIN: 1594201714
Publication Date: May 15, 2008
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 slow read, but insightful at times July 25, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
As a physician who trained at Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn, I found this book enjoyable....but I knew many of the physicians mentioned and it was a mini-reunion. It is amazing that the actual names are used! It gave me a keen insight into the inner workings of hospital politics and the boardroom battles that I have never witnessed. To non-physicians, the book would be somewhat boring. I am glad that I read it, but it will not be too memorable. (Dr. Warshawsky's review was very favorable (5 stars), but he is a very kind person. I am more realistic/critical!)
 A Unique Insight July 21, 2008
I am the President & CEO of a PointOne Systems, a start-up healthcare IT company ([...]), and I found Julie Salamon's book Hospital a unique and interesting peak under the hospital sheets which are either tucked so tightly you can't see it or so chaotic you can't make sense of it. However, Ms. Salamon approached the subject of diversity, economics, healthcare and human nature into an easy to read but insightful glimpse at some of our most important American issues. I included a brief review and my own perspective on my executive blog ([...]/). I highly recommend this book.
Engrossing July 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Takes what might have been a dry sociological study of a large Jewish-American metropolitan hospital and infuses it with life through well drawn vignettes of interns, executives, patients, physicians, nurses, hangers-on etc. A very moving and compelling document!
 Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, . . . Who Cares? July 19, 2008
2 out of 9 found this review helpful
Goes on and on with background details of an endless parade of characters - I really don't know what useful point is served by the book, other than I would hate to work anywhere with a confusing multitude of languages and cultures.
Hospitals are like this - what should you expect ? July 14, 2008
Hospital is a true story: Julie Salomon spent a year being a pest around the hospital, talking to everybody and everyone, no restrictions besides not revealing patient names. She did a good job, but to anyone that has been working at hospitals, no big news: HMOs are really a pain, red tape increases and increases, physicians take home money is decreasing, personalities clash and some egos can't go inside the hospital, because they are bigger than the biggest door...Some hospitals are losing patients, patients are admited for less and less time and this is not always in their best interests. This is a good book to read if you are a hospital administrator or a young physician, still full of ideals. Mostly of those ideals will perish after fellowship anyway...
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