Bellevue has an academic affiliation with the New York University School of Medicine, which enhances the quality of care provided to Bellevue patients. About Bellevue. Copyright , The City of New York. The stories I heard from members of the family what he saw was disgusting.
He tried telling people and in the end no one believed him so he wrote a letter detailing every bad thing he witnessed gave it to a friend that labeled it be mailed to the daily news on a specific day because by then he would be dead, and he was.
The daily news did interview my grandma and their children after the he committed suicide the next day. They posted a few things he put in the letter and the director dr.
Arthur Zitron of bellevue was even questioned and covered it all up though. Crazy decades later how the doctor is praised has many books and many hospital wings named after him etc. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Find out how you can support the production of the Bowery Boys Podcast. Close Menu Our Podcast. The Bowery Boys History Podcast. How to Listen. Recent Shows.
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And they come to Bellevue knowing that they will be treated, and they will be welcomed. And it's because Bellevue has always taken in the worst of the worst cases that it's drawn the best of the best in medicine. Consider the case of Alexander Anderson, Bellevue's first doctor. Because he believed it was God's will that he help these people. And to me, Alexander Anderson is really not only Bellevue's first doctor, but he sets down the notion and the ethos of compassion.
Susan Cohen, the current director of palliative care at Bellevue, carries on that tradition. As is the scale of the place. Everything is in the walls of Bellevue," said Cohen. Bellevue was the first hospital to have a civilian ambulance corps. They were horse-driven. They would actually ask the patient when the patient came onto the table, "Do you want us to do this procedure? It was purposefully held in a part of the hospital where the screams could not be heard.
They would give the patient a little whiskey and maybe put a rag in the person's mouth, and they would go ahead and do what they had to do. It was barbaric, absolutely barbaric. Bellevue had a lot [of amputations], as the city began to grow there [were] industrial accidents, people losing limbs, falling off, infections.
This went on quite frequently at Bellevue, and without anesthesia, doctors, surgeons who were performing these operations would become nauseous themselves. Some of them would walk away from the operating room, sometimes they couldn't go through with it. There's one part in my book where they take a limb off a young boy with his father holding him down, and at the end of the operation, the father [got sick].
On the other hand, according to the Bellevue doctors, the boy was just fine, his life had been saved. But the extreme methods didn't end with amputations, right? Electroshock therapy was also used at Bellevue. Oshinksy: What's most extraordinary about it, and not in a positive way, is that it was used on very young children at Bellevue; you know, it was used on 4-year-old kids at Bellevue.
The person who did it, Lauretta Bender, was a pioneer in autism, She was one of the very few early people studying autism who didn't believe it was caused by the coldness of the mother. She really wanted to reach kids who were not amenable to traditional therapy, and she thought electric shock was the answer. It turns out it wasn't the answer, and it turns out that in retrospect it was an absolutely awful, awful idea.
But at the time what she simply was trying to do was reach these children any way she could. Bellevue has been known as a hospital that treats underserved groups. What do you think that means for the future of Bellevue and other public hospitals now that health care is so divisive in this country? Oshinsky: It's a crapshoot, and the answer is that I don't know. There are fewer and fewer public hospitals. New York City once had 19; it's down under a dozen now.
Public hospitals are in trouble, but public hospitals are the places that treat the undocumented, the uninsured, the homeless. Bellevue especially, its emergency facilities, trauma facilities are so good that it will treat policemen who are shot, firemen who are overcome with smoke. Should the pope or the president get sick in New York City, Bellevue is the place where they would go in an emergency. In that sense, it's extraordinary.
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