Review: 'Hospital' by Julie Salamon

“To work with doctors who walk around believing that if one of them gets struck by lightning it's the other one's fault, it's shocking.”

HOSPITAL: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God and Diversity on Steroids, by Julie Salamon. Penguin Press, 363pp., $25.95.

Walk into any hospital, and you immediately join the cast of thousands of dramas. Behind every door lurk birth, death and all the crises in between. A hospital is a stage where acts of anger, frustration and tears play out daily alongside moments of relief and joy.

When the hospital is huge, when it sits in Brooklyn, when it is surrounded by waves of immigrants, when 67 languages are spoken there, when its emergency room is always packed, the potential for drama rises exponentially. Not to mention the likelihood of a first-rate book that manages to encompass this lively spectacle. Read more

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Clare Paris, France	Reply » \| Report Abuse \| Judge it! \| #1 May 18, 2008 well, "Only from experience do administrators learn that Chinese were shunning the hospital because of its white blankets, which in their culture symbolize death. Hence the switch to beige." It's true that the color white in Chinese culture symbolize death, BUT, in China's hospitals we use white blankets.
AP NYC AOL	Reply » \| Report Abuse \| Judge it! \| #2 Jul 7, 2008 The review states that this book "reads like a novel," but it's unclear as to whether it is fiction, journalistic feature, or a combination of the two. The review actually has the tone of a sensational romance novel; it makes the book seem almost as trite. Why would I want to read about these characters, living or fabricated?

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