Good Medicine

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This is a story of medicine as it moved from the pioneer care-giving era of the early 1800s to the sophisticated health settings of today. It is the story of the many colorful, caring physicians whose vision helped spawn new ways to educate caregivers and new methods to heal the sick . . . and of the generations of dedicated health professionals and civic leaders who, over the past 150 years, shaped one of the nation's leading academic health centers. It is the story of Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center.
This informal history of the medical center traces its development from the chartering of Rush Medical College in 1837 just two days before the City of Chicago obtained its charter, the early beginnings of St. Luke's Hospital on the city's near south side and of Presbyterian Hospital on the city's near west side, through the subsequent merger of their traditions and strengths.
Like any other great institution, Rush has had its share of visionaries, crusaders,... Tovább

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This is a story of medicine as it moved from the pioneer care-giving era of the early 1800s to the sophisticated health settings of today. It is the story of the many colorful, caring physicians whose vision helped spawn new ways to educate caregivers and new methods to heal the sick . . . and of the generations of dedicated health professionals and civic leaders who, over the past 150 years, shaped one of the nation's leading academic health centers. It is the story of Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center.
This informal history of the medical center traces its development from the chartering of Rush Medical College in 1837 just two days before the City of Chicago obtained its charter, the early beginnings of St. Luke's Hospital on the city's near south side and of Presbyterian Hospital on the city's near west side, through the subsequent merger of their traditions and strengths.
Like any other great institution, Rush has had its share of visionaries, crusaders, philosophers, pragmatists—and the occasional oddball. The telling of their struggles and triumphs in the quest for quality health care makes lively reading.
Good Medicine: The First 150 Years of Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center is Jim Bowman's third institutional or corporate history. His Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Seventy Years of Client Service: 1914-1984 was published in 1984, his More Than a Coffee Company: The Story of CFS Continental, in 1986. A former Chicago Daily News reporter and former Chicago Tribune columnist, Bowman has written on business and historica.1 nia,tters for various perioclica.ls, in-eluding Chicago History, a publication of the Chicago Historical Society. He writes from his home in Oak Park, Illinois. Vissza