Hospital Departments

Elements area

Taxonomy

Code

D006748

Scope note(s)

  • Major administrative divisions of the hospital.

Source note(s)

  • Medical Subject Headings

Display note(s)

    Equivalent terms

    Hospital Departments

    • UF Departments, Hospital

    Associated terms

    Hospital Departments

      2 Archival description results for Hospital Departments

      US AA155.INT185 · File · August 29, 2017
      Part of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center Alumni Association oral history collection

      In an interview with cardiologist Edward Dwyer, MD, he describes his attraction to medicine as a youngster after listening to a weekly science program on the radio; his decision to attend Columbia University on a baseball scholarship, and staying at Colombia for medical school (College of Physicians and Surgeons class of ’57); changes in science and medical practice between the 1950s and 1960s, and the merger between Roosevelt and St. Luke’s Hospitals in 1979, as well as other details of his medical career and life.

      Dwyer, Edward M., 1936-

      Dr. Stephan Lynn was founding Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the former Roosevelt Hospital (now Mount Sinai West) and in this engaging interview relates information about his youth and medical training, how he came to the Hospital, and how the Department of Emergency Medicine was established. He provides an "insider's view" of life in a hospital, and an overview of the development of emergency medicine as a field. He also relates many of the events which took place, most significantly, the hours after John Lennon's death at Roosevelt Hospital and the following media events.

      Lynn, Stephan G.