The Hospital The View from Bellevue Author:Laurence E. Karp, M.D. "A bizarre, funny, touching, and always human look at what goes on inside one of the world's most famous hospitals, where it seems that something in the air brings out the exceptional in the inhabitants, both patients and staff. The patients run the gamut from those who describe symptoms that do not exist to Bowery alcoholics looking for a clean... more » bed. They are victims of illness, violence, and foolish behavior. They come from all walks of life to Bellevue, New York City's primary municipal hospital to be cured, reassured, or die.« less