DAVID HELLERSTEIN, MD

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Mailing Address:
  Beth Israel Medical Ctr.
  1st Ave & 16th St.
  New York, NY10003

                                                                                           © 1999, David Hellerstein
  David Hellerstein, M.D.                 Psychiatrist and Writer

ABOUT DAVID HELLERSTEIN A fourth-generation doctor, David Hellerstein's writing has focused on medicine and literature...on the experiences of becoming a doctor, on the ways in which medicine has changed over the past 100 years, on the interactions between humanity and technology that occur in the hospital and the clinic. His published books include: Battles of Life and Death, (essays), Loving Touches (novel), and A Family of Doctors (memoir). He has won awards including the Pushcart Prize Best Essay Award, the David McCord Essay Prize, and several MacDowell Colony Fellowships.  He is also a psychiatrist, chief of the outpatient psychiatry division at Beth Israel Medical Center. In addition to running a large clinic, he does research on the treatment of mood disorders, including chronic depression.

BOOKS (available at Amazon.com) A Family of Doctors Battles of Life and Death Loving Touches Coming soon: Stone Babies   Marcus Rosenwasser, MD, from A Family of Doctors LITERARY WRITING has appeared in magazines including New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Esquire, North American Review, Fiction and others. LITERARY REPRESENTATION Sobel Weber Associates 146 East 19th St. New York NY 10003

PUBLICATIONS Essays, short stories, journalism, fiction...and scientific research. His writings have appeared in North American Review, NY Times Magazine, Harper's, Esquire, Vogue, and American Journal of Psychiatry, Archives of General Psychiatry, and other professional journals. EXCERPTS From Battles of Life and Death, award- winning essays about medical school and residency training... From Loving Touches, a novel about love and madness... From A Family of Doctors, a history of American medicine as seen through 5 generations of doctors in one family... From Stone Babies, a black comedy about medicine in Manhattan in the 1990s... LINKS   North American Review   Backinprint.com   Electronpress.com