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As Real As It Gets
"As Real As It Gets: The Life of a Hospital at the Center of the AIDS Epidemic"
by Carol Pogash
with an introduction by Randy Shilts
"A compelling account of the epidemic...presented with pace, clarity,
humanity and considerable power." -- The Washington Post
"One of the finest works I've ever read on the AIDS epidemic." --Randy
Shilts
"Dramatic...compulsively readable...(Pogash tells) how people from all walks
of life working at San Francisco General Hospital have pulled some measure
of triumph out of an otherwise unrelenting tragedy." -- The San Francisco
Chronicle
"Pogash's profile of San Francisco's General Hospital, a pioneer in the research and treatment of AIDS, provides a vivid and moving account of the medical and human dimensions of the disease." -- Publishers Weekly
"There is not a drama inherent to the AIDS epidemic that has not been acted out in San Francisco General Hospital," writes Randy Shilts ( And the Band Played On , LJ 11/15/87) in his laudatory foreword to this book. Pogash's title comes from a T-shirt sported by the hospital's emergency room staff. By presenting the compelling cast of characters who people the halls of this hospital, she chronicles how "the finest example of humanized care for patients of the AIDS epidemic"--what is called the San Francisco model--came to be. It's an exciting cram course about an invidious disease and about politics and human behavior. The human dimensions of the AIDS epidemic, "the most important medical story of the century," grip the reader who comes to know the hospital's doctors, nurses, and patients in a remarkable book that Shilts calls "an invaluable document, a record of all that was human in our response to this troubled time." Highly recommended. -- Library Journal: James Swanton, Albert Einstein Coll. of Medicine, New York
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