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Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Set in downtown New York in 1900, the Knickerbocker Hospital faces a major upheaval due to poor finances and an exodus of wealthy patients. The one remaining star is Dr. Thackeray, who along with the hospital staff of surgeons, nurses and other personnel must struggle to keep both themselves and the hospital going.
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
John Thackery, a brilliant but drug-addled surgeon pushes the boundaries of medicine, morality, and race in 1900s New York. Thackery's absence (hospitalized for cocaine addiction), a lack of affluent patients and financial missteps have led to a decision by the hospital's board to shutter the downtown location and move uptown. Algernon Edwards jockeys to become Thackery's successor as Chief of Surgery, while fellow doctors, nurses, nuns and others...
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
In a tented field hospital on the coast of France, doctors, nurses, and volunteers work together to heal the bodies and souls of men wounded in the trenches of WWI. The hospital is a frontier: between the battlefield and home front but also between the old rules, hierarchies, class distinctions, and a new way of thinking.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
It's 1917, on the eve of the Russian Revolution, and a young doctor (Radcliffe) arrives in the middle of the night to lead an eerie, back-woods hospital. Fresh from med school, he is completely unprepared for the bizarre people and alarming medical maladies that face him, so, in an unexpected twist, he turns to his older self (Hamm) for advice. It's a fascinating, dark and original comedy with two of Hollywood's leading talents that surprises and...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In the era before antibiotics, tens of thousands of immigrant patients were separated from family, detained in the hospital on Ellis Island, and healed from illness before becoming citizens. 350 babies were born, and ten times that many immigrants died on Ellis Island and were buried in pauper's graves around New York City.
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