White Coat Tales: Becoming & Being Urban Doctors 1946-2006

Walk the wards of the real Cook County emergency department, catch babies in cars on the streets of Brooklyn, experience the heart wrenching and warming triumphs and trials of medical students training in Pittsburgh and on the floors of Chicago's Mount Sinai Hospital as you tag along with the men and women of White Coat Tales. Contributed by physicians from all over the country, this anthology of short stories over the decades reveals the world of medicine embedded within the urban cultures of metropolitan cities and representing eras of doctoring from the 1940's to today. PROCEEDS OF BOOK WILL BE DONATED TO THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS