02202cam a2200325 i 4500 567532001 TxAuBib 20220812120000.0 220502s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022013555 9781250805737 HRD 29.99 1250805732 HRD 29.99 TxAuBib rda Brenner, Marie, author. The desperate hours [BOOK] : one hospital's fight to save a city on the pandemic's front lines / Marie Brenner. First edition. New York : Flatiron Books, 2022. xiv, 481 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-481). Before long, America’s largest metropolis was at war against a virus that mercilessly swept through its five boroughs. It became apparent that if Covid wasn’t somehow halted, the death count in New York alone would be in the hundreds of thousands. And if New York’s hospitals failed, what chance did the rest of the country have? Brenner, having been granted unprecedented 18-month access to the entire New York-Presbyterian hospital system, tells the story of the doctors, nurses, residents, researchers, and suppliers who tried to save lives across Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn and the northern periphery of the city. Drawing on more than 200 interviews, Brenner takes us inside secure ICU units, sealed operating rooms, locked executive suites, unknown basement workshops, and makeshift clinics to provide extraordinary witness to the war as it was waged on the front line. Provided by publisher. 20220812. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital History 21st century. COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023 New York (State) New York. Medical personnel New York (State) New York Job stress. Epidemics New York (State) New York History 21st century. Public health New York (State) New York History 21st century.