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Authors: Eric Manheimer

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About the Author

Eric Manheimer is a clinical professor of medicine at the New York University School of Medicine. He was the medical director at Bellevue Hospital for fourteen years and previously was on the faculty at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire. He trained as an internist at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, after receiving his medical degree at Downstate Medical School. He lives in New York City and Tepoztlán, Mexico, with his wife, Diana Taylor.

Contents

Welcome

Dedication

Chapter 1: The One-Strike Law

Chapter 2: Tanisha

Chapter 3: Sunrise to Sunset

Chapter 4:
Beso de Angel

Chapter 5: The Qualification

Chapter 6: A Heart for Rabinal

Chapter 7: Four Generations

Chapter 8: The Singularity

Chapter 9: Trauma Detroit

Chapter 10: Index of Suspicion

Chapter 11: The Unloved Woman

Chapter 12: Collateral Damage

A Note on Methodology

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Copyright

Copyright

Copyright © 2012 by Eric Manheimer

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ISBN 978-1-4555-0389-6

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