This Narrow Space: A Pediatric Oncologist, His Jewish, Muslim, and Christian Patients, and a Hospital in Jerusalem
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.24 (630 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0805243321 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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His writing has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review and The Hill. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. He lives in Chicago. . He was formerly medical director of pediatric palliative care at the Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital at Columbia University Medical Center in New York. from Yale University and his medical degree from the Sackler School of Medicine in Tel Aviv. He received his B.A. He also trained at Mount Sinai Medical Center and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, and at Boston Children’s Hospital. About the AuthorELISHA WALDMAN is associate chief, divi
His writing has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review and The Hill. from Yale University and his medical degree from the Sackler School of Medicine in Tel Aviv. . He lives in Chicago. He was formerly medical director of pediatric palliative care at the Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital at Columbia University Medical Center in New York. He also trained at Mount Sinai Medical Center and Memorial Sloan Ke
But in the wake of a financial crisis at the hospital that left him feeling unsure about his future, Waldman, with considerable regret, left Hadassah in 2014 and returned to America. A memoir both bittersweet and inspiring by an American pediatric oncologist who spent seven years in Jerusalem taking care of Israeli and Palestinian children with one tragic thing in common—a diagnosis of pediatric cancer In 2007, Elisha Waldman, a New York–based pediatric oncologist and palliative-care specialist in his mid-thirties, was offered his dream job: attending physician at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Medical Center. Navigating the baffling Israeli bureaucracy, the ever-present threat of war, and the cultural clashes that sometimes spilled over into his clinic, Waldman learned to be content with small victories: a young patient whose disease went into remission, br