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First, Do No Harm: The Dramatic Story of Real Doctors and Patients Making Impossible Choices at a Big-City Hospital Mass_market - 1994 - 1st Edition
by Belkin, Lisa
- New
A medical reporter for The New York Times delivers an exceptional, widely acclaimed work of true medicine. First, Do No Harm is the dramatic story of real doctors and patients making impossible choices at Houston's Harmann Hospital. Optioned by Paramount for Robert Redford.
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- Title First, Do No Harm: The Dramatic Story of Real Doctors and Patients Making Impossible Choices at a Big-City Hospital
- Author Belkin, Lisa
- Binding mass_market
- Edition number 1st
- Edition Reissue
- Condition New
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Fawcett, New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Publication date 1994-03-02
- Bookseller's Inventory # DADAX044922290X
- ISBN 9780449222904 / 044922290X
- Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 6.95 x 4.21 x 0.97 in (17.65 x 10.69 x 2.46 cm)
- Size 4.20x0.90x6.70
- Category Medical / Nursing
- Dewey Decimal Code 174
- Quantity available 6
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"A powerful, true story of life and death in a major metropolitan hospital...Harrowing... An important book."
THE NEW YORK TIMES
What is life worth? And what is a life worth living? At a time when America faces vital choices about the future of its health care, former NEW YORK TIMES correspondent Lisa Belkin takes a powerful and poignant look at the inner workings of Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas, telling the remarkable, real-life stories of the doctors, patients, families, and hospital administrators who must ask--and ultimately answer--the most profound and heart-rendng questions about life and death.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
What is life worth? And what is a life worth living? At a time when America faces vital choices about the future of its health care, former NEW YORK TIMES correspondent Lisa Belkin takes a powerful and poignant look at the inner workings of Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas, telling the remarkable, real-life stories of the doctors, patients, families, and hospital administrators who must ask--and ultimately answer--the most profound and heart-rendng questions about life and death.
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- Publishers Weekly, 03/14/1994, Page 0
