Bellevue Diary

<p>From its founding 1736 Bellevue Hospital has been a dumping ground into which a city poured its poor elderly and dying. What makes the oldest hospital in the United States unique is that Bellevue is a place from which no one in need is turned away.</p><p><i>Bellevue Diary</i> is a collection of short stories borne out of Dr. Monif 's year of internship that collectively pays tribute to this great hospital.</p><p><i>Bellevue Diary</i> is mosaic of short snippets of stories. Mosaics have to be near perfect to work. Ironically this one comes close. What is surprising that it works on multiple levels: a historical characterization of a place and time and the impact of the Bellevue Hospital on a young physician's professional and spiritual growth into which is woven a thesis of death's ultimate meaning. The pieces all come together to make this mosaic good reading.</p>-Peter Firchow PhD<br> Former Professor of English - University of Minnesota<br>