Every Disease on Earth.

HOSPITALS; PHYSICIAN training; HOSPITAL patients; CULTURAL pluralism; LIEBER, Joseph; MEDICAL education; MEDICAL teaching personnel

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The article discusses the Elmhurst Hospital Center in the Elmhurst neighborhood of New York City. Details are provided on the hospital's founding in the early 19th century, reputation for training physicians, and the ethnic and cultural diversity of its patients and medical practice influences. Particular attention is given to the career of the hospital's diagnostician and clinical educator Joseph Lieber, who provides his views on medical education in the U.S.