Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God andDiversity on Steroids by Julie Salamon Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God andDiversity on Steroids
Book Review: A Unique Insight
Summary: 5 Stars
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.Book Review: Engrossing
Summary: 5 Stars
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!Book Review: Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, . . . Who Cares?
Summary: 1 Stars
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.Book Review: Hospitals are like this - what should you expect ?
Summary: 4 Stars
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...Book Review: A fabulous book
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a fabulous book. It is easy to forget that it is not fiction; the characters and the situation and setting are fascinating and their depth and complexities so well portrayed. The story itself is at once inspiring, depressing, hopeful and overwhelming. Maimonides Hospital is unique, but really this book is about every medical practice. Over and over again I felt an odd sense that this was about my practice in a small Maine town... a practice that is homogenous in every way that is easily described in demographics, but as diverse as every face and family and experience. Ms. Salamon gets it exactly right: that health care is emotional and spiritual and about human dynamics, both beautiful and ugly. Her writing of the Maimonides story so perfectly shows how nothing is simple in health care and yet it really is all very simple. Because this book truly is about humankind and our survival together, it is certainly a great read for anyone, not just readers in the medical field. (But a must read for everyone in the medical field!) (Jennifer Oddleifson)