cover image One Children's Place: Inside a Children's Hospital

One Children's Place: Inside a Children's Hospital

Lee Gutkind. Plume Books, $9.95 (288pp) ISBN 978-0-452-26687-2

In this ``striking portrait'' of Pittsburgh's prominent Children's Hospital, the author argues that the young receive superior care in institutions devoted solely to them. ``Employing a journalist's `fly on the wall' strengths of observation, rendering insights with novelistic verve, Gutkind recounts hospital procedures . . . and chronicles a procession of tragedies and triumphs,'' said PW. (Oct.)