For those readers with a newly generated interest in the history of the legendary Bellevue Hospital, I cannot recommend more highly the fascinating Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital, by David Oshinsky (New York: Anchor Books, 2017). In many ways it reads like a novel, complete with larger-than-life characters and a fascinating narrative, revealing all the warts as well as the triumphs. After having personally had the experience of being a sub-intern at Bellevue Hospital in the early 1960s on Columbia Division 1, an experience that was both intellectually stimulating and horrifying at the same time, I’ve always wanted to include this storied hospital in one of my novels, and David Oshinsky’s book helped make that happen.