Having just finished training as an infertility specialist, Dr. Jay Sones looks forward to opening a lucrative private practice in Manhattan. Just as his new life begins, disaster strikes. His partner is attacked and nearly killed, and he is caught up in a vicious malpractice suite. To make ends, Dr. Sones starts work at a hospital in the South Bronx. Stone Babies is at once a thriller, a love story, and a black comedy about medicine in America today.
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Nationally known as a writer, journalist, and researcher, David Hellerstein, MD is Director of Medical Communications at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, and an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. A fourth generation doctor, he received his MD at Stanford after completing undergraduate studies at Harvard, then trained in psychiatry at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. He practices, does research, and writes in New York. Dr. Hellerstein's previous books include a collection of award-winning essays about medical training, Battles of Life and Death; a novel, Loving Touches; and a memoir, A Family of Doctors. His articles, essays, and short fiction have been published in magazines including Harper's, Esquire, North American Review, Fiction, Yankee, and the New York Times Magazine. He was awarded the Pushcart Prize for best essay (A Death in the Glitter Palace); included in Battles of Life and Death) and has also been awarded MacDowell Colony fellowships.
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Subj: Stone Babies Date: 11/29/2001 8:37:23 PM Eastern Standard Time From: A Reader I really got into this book, Stone Babies, on the train today--almost missed my stop on the way home! It is quite a page turner after one gets going--a very ingenious plot. I love the role the computer plays, even if I don't understand all of the cyber-jargon. P.S. great scenes of the South Bronx!
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