Hospital Days - A Memoir

During the late Sixties, I worked in a number of hospitals as an aide or orderly. Two of them were world famous: McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts; and the Massachusetts General Hospital, in downtown Boston. They were my first full time jobs. I saw incredible things, people and incidents that have stayed with me all these years: the managed blood of surgery, the chaos of emergency, tense moments in a mental ward. These are human-interest stories. It’s about what happened in the hospital and outside the hospital during a turbulent period in history.