Bellevue Quotes

“Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.” Before”
― David Oshinsky, Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital

“Before long, public libraries had stopped lending books, gauze face masks had become regular attire, and people had stopped shaking hands.”
― David M. Oshinsky, Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital

“New York’s J. Pierpont Morgan took advantage of the conflict to sell defective weapons to the army, while Brooks Brothers produced such shoddy uniforms for the local regiments that public rage forced the clothier to replace them free of charge. More troubling, though, was the growing chasm between the city’s rich and poor. While the war boom created many jobs, severe inflation had caused a drop in working-class spending power. Meanwhile, the number of millionaires in New York jumped from a dozen to more than three hundred, with the top one percent of the pyramid accounting for close to 60 percent of the city’s wealth. The resentment over poor soldiers fighting and dying in the midst of such avarice grew with each new luxury paraded by the rich. In terms of class conflict, a fuse had been lit. —”
― David M. Oshinsky, Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital

“the nation faced a constitutional crisis in which both major presidential candidates—Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel Tilden—claimed victory in the 1876 election, raising concerns about who would govern the Republic.”
― David M. Oshinsky, Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital

“I feel surpris’d at my own composure,” he noted, “and am more disposed to impute it to despair than resignation.”
― David M. Oshinsky, Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital

“A few years earlier, Forssmann had performed the first human cardiac catheterization—on himself. Assisted by a nurse and some painkillers, he made an incision at his elbow and carefully threaded a thirty-inch rubber catheter—the kind used to drain urine from the kidneys—through a large vein in his arm. Upon reaching the shoulder blade, Forssmann walked down a flight of stairs to the hospital’s X-ray room, the tubing still inside him, and got the technician on duty to record the moment when the outer point of the catheter touched the right chamber of his heart. Forssmann had not only done the medically unthinkable, he’d filmed it for posterity.”
― David Oshinsky, Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital

“The Metropolitan Health Act was the first of its kind in the United States. Many consider it a turning point in the history of American city life.”
― David oshinsky, Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital

“Asked for the secret of his longevity, Smith, who would live to ninety-nine, was typically brief. “Work and keep out of the easy chair,” he said. Anything else? Well, yes, Smith replied with his usual foresight. “Don’t eat too much meat.”
― David Oshinsky, Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital

“Dr. Sheri Fink put it all together in Five Days at Memorial, a searing account of what happened when the backup generators failed, the water taps went dry, the”
― David Oshinsky, Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital