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Desperate Hours : One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines by Marie Brenner (2023, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherFlatiron Books
ISBN-101250837154
ISBN-139781250837158
eBay Product ID (ePID)27057249174
Product Key Features
Number of Pages496 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameDesperate Hours : One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines
SubjectPublic Health, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Infectious Diseases, General, Research, Hospital Administration & Care, Disease & Health Issues, Epidemiology
Publication Year2023
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaSocial Science, History, Medical
AuthorMarie Brenner
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight20.5 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width7.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Reviews"Fascinating and harrowing. . . . Brenner draws sharp, sympathetic profiles . . . and vividly captures moments of heartbreak and celebration." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Urgent. . . . Brenner creates a tense, stirring picture of the impact of Covid-19 on New York-Presbyterian Hospital's campuses. . . . [Her] probing investigation includes animated profiles of a large cast of characters, creating a palpable sense of trauma, pain, and vulnerability in what one cardiologist characterized as nothing less than war." -- Kirkus (starred review)
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal362.19624144
SynopsisAWARD-WINNING VANITY FAIR WRITER Marie Brenner shares a remarkable depiction of New York--a city in crisis--based on new, behind-the-scenes reporting that captures the resilience, peril, and compassion of the early days of the Covid pandemic. In the spring of 2020, COVID-19 arrived in New York City. Before long, America's largest metropolis was at war against a virus that mercilessly swept through its five boroughs. It became apparent that if Covid wasn't somehow halted, the death count in New York alone would be in the hundreds of thousands. And if New York's hospitals failed, what chance did the rest of the country have? Brenner, having been granted unprecedented 18-month access to the entire New York-Presbyterian hospital system, tells the story of the doctors, nurses, residents, researchers, and suppliers who tried to save lives across Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn and the northern periphery of the city. Drawing on more than 200 interviews, Brenner takes us inside secure ICU units, sealed operating rooms, locked executive suites, unknown basement workshops, and makeshift clinics to provide extraordinary witness to the war as it was waged on the front line. But The Desperate Hours is more than a thrilling account of medicine under extreme pressure. It is an intimate portrait of courageous men and women coming together in their devotion to duty, their families, each other, and the city they loved more than any other.
LC Classification NumberRA644.C67
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