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The sky was falling : a young surgeon's notes on bravery, survival, and hope  Cover Image Book Book

The sky was falling : a young surgeon's notes on bravery, survival, and hope / Cornelia Griggs.

Griggs, Cornelia, (author.).

Summary:

"The dramatic, cathartic diary of Dr. Cornelia Griggs--a young pediatric surgeon and the mother of two toddlers--as she worked on the front lines during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic at one of New York City's busiest hospitals"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781982168483 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: xiii, 287 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Gallery Books, 2024.
Subject: Griggs, Cornelia.
COVID-19 (Disease) > New York (State) > New York.
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- > New York (State) > New York > Anecdotes.
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- > New York (State) > New York > Personal narratives.
Pediatric surgeons > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Genre: Biographies.
Diaries.
Personal narratives.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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Stroud Branch 617.092 Gri 31681010364198 NONFIC Available -

Dr. Cornelia Griggs is a triple board-certified pediatric surgeon. She completed medical school at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, where she graduated with Alpha Omega Alpha honors. She completed her adult general surgery residency and surgical critical care fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she currently practices. She is a graduate of Harvard College and earned a certificate in health policy from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Her writing has been published in The New York Times and many top medical journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine.


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