Pulse--voices from the heart of medicine: The First Year - Softcover

Gross MD, Paul; Guernsey, Diane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0615553354 ISBN 13: 9780615553351

Publisher: Voices from the Heart of Medicine, Inc., 2011

Synopsis

Every Friday, Pulse--voices from the heart of medicine (www.pulsemagazine.org) sends its readers a compelling first-person story or poem about health care. These intimate and authentic voices of health professionals, patients and students have earned Pulse an enthusiastic and growing international readership. This volume includes every story and poem from Pulse's first year of publication. "All of the stories in this book...are told with a kind of urgency; these encounters change lives and mark memories. This collection is in some sense about writing for one’s life..." Perri Klass, JAMA

About this title

About the Author

Paul Gross MD is founding editor of the online magazine Pulse--voices from the heart of medicine. He is an assistant professor of Family and Social Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. Diane Guernsey is executive editor of Pulse--voices from the heart of medicine. A former senior editor at Town & Country Magazine, she is a frequent contributor to Consumer Reports on Health. Peter Selwyn is chairman of the Department of Family and Social Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York. He authored Surviving the Fall: the Personal Journey of an AIDS Doctor (Yale University Press, 1991), which was nominated for the National Book Award.

Edition details

• Publisher: Voices from the Heart of Medicine, Inc.
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0615553354
• ISBN 13: 9780615553351
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 182