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Living and dying in Brick City : stories from the front lines of an inner-city E.R. /

Personal exploration of the healthcare crisis facing inner-city communities. Sampson Davis grew up in the very neighborhood he is now serving. Sampson Davis is best known as one of three friends from inner-city Newark who made a pact in high school to become doctors. Dr. Davis looks at the healthcar...

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Main Authors: Davis, Sampson
Group Author: Page, Lisa Frazier
Published: Spiegel & Grau Trade Paperbacks,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: c2013
2014.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: Spiegel & Grau trade paperback editiion.
Subjects:
Davis, Sampson
Hospitals > Emergency services > New Jersey > Newark
Hospitals > United States
Urban poor > Medical care > United States
African American physicians > New Jersey > Biography
Emergency physicians > New Jersey > Newark > Biography
Emergency medicine > New Jersey > Newark > Case studies
Medicine > Study and teaching Internship
Urban Health > United States
Minorities > Health and hygiene > United States
Summary: Personal exploration of the healthcare crisis facing inner-city communities. Sampson Davis grew up in the very neighborhood he is now serving. Sampson Davis is best known as one of three friends from inner-city Newark who made a pact in high school to become doctors. Dr. Davis looks at the healthcare crisis in the inner city from a rare perspective: as a doctor who works on the front line of emergency medical care in the community where he grew up, and as a member of that community who has faced the same challenges as the people he treats every day.
Carrier Form: 241 pages ; 21 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-241).
ISBN: 9780812982343 (pbk.)
0812982347 (pbk.)
Index Number: R695
CLC: K837.126.2
Call Number: K837.126.2/D261
Contents: Brothers -- Hidden in plain sight -- Brick city -- Love hurts -- Dying for love -- Baby love -- Clubbing -- The fear factor -- The fish bowl -- Russian roulette -- No air -- Killing us softly -- Reaching out -- Unexpected twists.

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