 Author Name: Hellerstein, David
Title: A Family of Doctors
Book Condition: Very Good.
ISBN Number: 0809044056 / 9780809044054
Seller ID: 0607H959127
Hardcover. 1st edition hardcover with dustjacket 1994 Hill & Wang. Clean; unmarked; pages bright; binding tight. Light edgewear only. 268pp, photos. Language: English. 'In a briskly flowing narrative, psychiatrist, essayist and novelist Hellerstein (Battles of Life and Death) records the accomplishments since the Civil War of 13 doctors in 5 generations of his Midwestern Jewish family. The family tree includes an EKG pioneer and the author's own father, mother, brothers and 2 sisters, each in a different specialty. In lively portraits and anecdotes culled from family attic archives, Hellerstein describes early, more primitive, medical procedures together with his ancestors' romances, scandals and travels, including a moving account of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp witnessed by his father during military service. While citing modern medical advances, Hellerstein deplores today's diminished professional dedication and the advent of high costs, impersonal care and bureaucracy in medicine.'--Publishers Weekly, 1994.
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