PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
After completing her medical training in New York, Susan Levenstein set off for a one year adventure in Rome. Forty years later, she is still practicing medicine in the Eternal City. In Dottoressa: An American Doctor in Rome Levenstein writes, with love and exasperation, about navigating her career through the renowned Italian tangle of brilliance and ineptitude, sexism and tolerance, rigidity and chaos.
Susan Levenstein gives us a fascinating account of her life as an American doctor in the Eternal City, including an analysis of Italian healthcare that is both informed and terrifying. A must read for anyone contemplating to relocate to Rome--if they want to live long enough to enjoy their Italian dream. --Matthew Kneale, author of English Passengers and Rome: a History in Seven Sackings So far as medicine is concerned, Italy really is a foreign country, where definitions of what ails you, expectations of the physician, and standards of medical practice may come as a surprise. This sharp-eyed, deeply thoughtful, often exhilarating book will enlighten you not only about what it's like to be an American doctor in Italy but about the whole dolce vita way of life. --Frederika Randall, journalist, translator, critic, and long-time denizen of Rome
E. Graeme Robertson
Physician, Photographer, Preserver...
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