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Rough sleepers : Dr. Dr. Jim O'Connell's urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people / Tracy Kidder.
"When he graduated from Harvard Medical School, Jim O'Connell was asked by the medical school Dean to spend one year setting up a program to care for the homeless population in Boston. It became Jim O'Connell's life calling, to help people known as "rough sleepers." For the past three decades, Dr. O'Connell has run the Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program, which he helped to create. Affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital, the program includes clinics and a van on which Dr O'Connell and his staff ride through the Boston streets at night, offering outreach of medical care, socks, soup, and friendship to a marginalized community"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781984801432 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xii, 298 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2023]
- Copyright: ©2023
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Subtitle from jacket. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | O'Connell, James J. (James Joseph), 1948- Homeless persons > Care > Massachusetts > Boston. Homeless persons > Services for > Massachusetts > Boston. Homelessness > Massachusetts > Boston. |
| Genre: | Biographies. Personal narratives. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Stroud Branch | 362.5920974461 Kid | 31681010306173 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
This masterful work of reporting and nonfiction storytelling takes us deep into the world of Dr. Jim OâConnell, a Harvard Medical School graduate, who, following his lifeâs calling, serves Bostonâs homeless community, facing one of American societyâs most shameful problems, instead of looking away. 100,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
"When he graduated from Harvard Medical School, Jim O'Connell was asked by the medical school dean to spend one year setting up a program to care for the homeless population in Boston. It became Jim O'Connell's life calling, to help people known as "rough sleepers." For the past three decades, Dr. O'Connell has run the Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program, which he helped to create. Affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital, the program includes clinics and a van on which Dr O'Connell and his staff ride through the Boston streets at night, offering outreach of medical care, socks, soup, and friendship to a marginalized community"-- - Random House, Inc.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠The powerful story of an inspiring doctor who made a difference, by helping to create a program to care for Bostonâs homeless communityâby the Pulitzer Prizeâwinning, New York Times bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains
âI couldnât put Rough Sleepers down. I am left in awe of the human spirit and inspired to do better.ââAbraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone
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A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, BookPage, Chicago Public Library
Tracy Kidder has been described by The Baltimore Sun as âa master of the nonfiction narrative.â In Rough Sleepers, Kidder tells the story of Dr. Jim OâConnell, a gifted man who invented a community of care for a cityâs unhoused population, including those who sleep on the streetsâthe ârough sleepers.â
After Jim OâConnell graduated from Harvard Medical School and was nearing the end of his residency at Massachusetts General, the hospitalâs chief of medicine made a proposal: Would he defer a prestigious fellowship and spend a year helping to create an organization to bring health care to homeless citizens? That year turned into OâConnellâs lifeâs calling. Tracy Kidder spent five years following Dr. OâConnell and his colleagues as they work with thousands of homeless patients, some of whom we meet in this illuminating book. We travel with OâConnell as he navigates the city streets at night, offering medical care, socks, soup, empathy, humor, and friendship to some of the cityâs most endangered citizens. He emphasizes a style of medicine in which patients come first, joined with their providers in what he calls âa system of friends.â
Much as he did with Paul Farmer in Mountains Beyond Mountains, Kidder explores how Jim OâConnell and a dedicated group of people have improved countless lives by facing and addressing one of American societyâs most difficult problems, instead of looking away.
