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By Sydney Lewis. 349 pp. New York, New Press, 1995. $25. ISBN 1-56584-138-7.

Cook County Hospital of Illinois, founded in the 1860s, is one of the few great public hospitals that continue to survive and endure. Sydney Lewis, who studied with Studs Terkel, has captured the turbulent past and present of this institution in the interviews she conducted for her remarkable new book, an oral history of Cook County Hospital. Her book is a moving portrait of a troubled medical center seen through the eyes of the people who work there and the patients who enter its doors.

In this book, Cook County Hospital emerges as a lumbering, benevolent giant of an institution . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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