TheViewfromtheVue

The View from the Vue Larry Karp Contents Preface Introduction: An Overview of The Vue 1. Don’t Go Away Mad 2. It’s Hard to Get Good Help Nowadays 3. Of Bums and Camel Drivers 4. The Chicken-Soup-for-Lunch Bunch 5. Gays, Too, Came to The Vue 6. Marriages Are Made in Heaven 7. Things Ain’t Always What They Seem 8. The Healing of John the Baptist 9. I’d Rather Be Lucky Than Good 10. The Dumping Syndrome 11. A Receptacle for All Purposes 12. You Rape ’Em, We Scrape ’Em 13. Come Quick, Doc, He’s Dead 14. All the Monkeys Weren’t in the Zoo 15. Visitations at The Vue 16. A Blood Brotherhood 17. They Shall Beat the Interns into Pruning Hooks 18. And Gladly Did They Learn 19. Internship Is Fun and Good for You 20. Everything’s Up-to-Date at the Vue Epilogue Preface One day in the autumn of 1958, I went for an interview to New York University School of Medicine. N.Y.U.’s major affiliated teaching facility was (and still is) Bellevue Hospital. During the course of my interview, the Dean asked me why I wanted to go to medical school. I told him: I want to be a doctor because then I’ll have an acceptable excuse to talk and listen to......