This pseudo-autobiographic novel describes how Allen Flint Childress, a half Cherokee country boy, climbs the educational/cultural ladder from the red clay hills of Louisiana to Ivy League universities and the Hospitals in NY where he became a neurology resident physician at Bellevue. He was then embroiled in a bitter medical conflict with a senior physician that brought him to the brink of disaster. The au ...Täydellinen kuvaus
This pseudo-autobiographic novel describes how Allen Flint Childress, a half Cherokee country boy, climbs the educational/cultural ladder from the red clay hills of Louisiana to Ivy League universities and the Hospitals in NY where he became a neurology resident physician at Bellevue. He was then embroiled in a bitter medical conflict with a senior physician that brought him to the brink of disaster. The author is a graduate of Cornell and a veteran of the Korean war, and was awarded the Bronze Star and other citations. He was the first neurologist to practice in Delaware, has published 87 scientific papers, and has been a professor of Neurology at Jefferson University Hospital since 1975.