Bellevue, America's oldest public hospital

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  • Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
  • The New York City medical institution became renowned for innovative medical advances, turning no one away, and treating the worst of cases with the best of care. Mo Rocca reports on the history of Bellevue Hospital Center, and talks with David Oshinsky, author of "Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital."

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  • @Pink_143_6
    @Pink_143_6 Год назад +11

    In 1985 I was in nursing school and took care of our states first AIDS patient as we knew to be AIDS. I’ll never forget the fear of the unknown ( transmission) & being told if we didn’t take care of an AIDS patient we’d be dismissed from nursing school. I’ll never forget that patient and the fear in his eyes as he was dying. I gave him compassion and dignity and I hope he knew that deep down inside , he was loved by us. His family never came to visit him. The public was literally in fear of catching this awful virus 🦠 🙏🏼

  • @ronlinfonte2651
    @ronlinfonte2651 4 года назад +41

    My grandfather went to NYU-Bellevue Medical College...Class of 1922. He graduated and was asked to stay and serve as a Professor but he chose to head to Newark NJ and set up practice.

  • @maureenwalters9572
    @maureenwalters9572 4 года назад +60

    My father, George H. Long, was the “charge” nurse of the psychiatric ward at Bellevue Hospital in the 1940’s

    • @blackdogslivesmatter1568
      @blackdogslivesmatter1568 4 года назад +4

      That must have been one hard and scary job. There are so many mentally sick people in NYC that are just tossed to the side and live on the street. It must have been a very interesting job and never know what you would be doing day to day but not a job for most nurses. Cudos to your dad. He must of had some great stories to tell at the dinner table.

    • @Burningredroses
      @Burningredroses 4 года назад +2

      Pysch is the best part of nursing.

    • @jodrew1845
      @jodrew1845 4 года назад +4

      @@Burningredroses until you're assaulted by a patient. It's then time to move on to another specialty, ijs.

    • @Burningredroses
      @Burningredroses 4 года назад +4

      @@jodrew1845 I work in a nursing home, I've been assaulted before. But I get what your saying. It can be very dangerous.

    • @kishascape
      @kishascape Год назад +1

      @@Burningredroses well at Bellevue you were allowed to abuse the patients and do inhumane things for so long. So the people weren’t as dangerous but were made that way by the system.

  • @margis.5873
    @margis.5873 4 года назад +48

    I believe that my grandmother, Elizabeth Butler Ketchum, attended the Bellevue school of nursing in the late 1890's. I’ve been told she was a highly skilled nurse and diagnostician.

  • @jcfh19981
    @jcfh19981 4 года назад +18

    My grandmother, Thelma Maneilly, and her cousin, Blanche Sigman, graduated from the Bellevue Nursing School in 1929. I have her yearbook and tons of pictures!

    • @marcellamorales1320
      @marcellamorales1320 4 года назад +1

      great you should share thats pics for a documental about that hospital and to create a book or documents to people can learn as me........bye from chile suramerica

    • @catrionadreelan7773
      @catrionadreelan7773 3 года назад +1

      My grandmother worked in the Bellevue Hospital at that time as a Office Clerk they could of known each other

  • @bliastreb6466
    @bliastreb6466 4 года назад +37

    I am proud to be a Lower East Side New York City baby from Bellevue, as is my brother. I'm proud to say that Ma (an RN) used to say, if you're in need and can talk say "Take me to Bellevue!".
    When I was eight and broke my finger, we went to some fancy-dancy clinic. After waiting more than a half hour (the Contac was wearing off; and I was crying from the pain), Ma got up, went to desk and said " Tell the F+ing dog doctors I'm taking my son to Bellevue"!
    To all 'Bellevue-ians' on the Coronavirius front lines: Thank You from a transplanted Mainer for your heroism !

    • @blackdogslivesmatter1568
      @blackdogslivesmatter1568 4 года назад +2

      I thought they called people living in maine maniacs not mainers. At least thats what I called my ex and his lunatic family. They would definately be candidates for the psych ward there.

  • @judithmcbride4023
    @judithmcbride4023 3 года назад +4

    Amazing!! I had NO idea!! Bless All those past and present who choose to work there!❤️🙏🎚

  • @mollywoolsey7677
    @mollywoolsey7677 4 года назад +5

    I was born in Bellevue hospital July 1956. Also my father was a frequent guest of their alcoholic ward.

  • @newyorkcity76
    @newyorkcity76 4 года назад +6

    I had surgery In Bellevue hospital wonderful staff thank you all

  • @USA92
    @USA92 4 года назад +15

    I was homeless. In New York. The old hospital had been turned into a homeless shelter. Part of New Yorks dealing with the homeless. The state finds sending you out of state to get rid of you is the answer. They have you call someone who will answer the phone. They get on the phone and so long as the person on the other end says you can stay with them New York pays for it. Their best way of dealing with the homeless in need of help is to get rid of you. That is the legacy of the old Bellvue hospital today.
    The new hospital is a walk away. A good hospital with good people trying to help others.

    • @jai7184
      @jai7184 4 года назад +1

      Shadow The “new hospital” still house homeless ! People that were there when sick and are displaced for one reason or another are living there

    • @USA92
      @USA92 4 года назад +1

      @@jai7184 Really? Okay thank you for the info. Stay healthy and the best to you and yours.

  • @RDnAC
    @RDnAC 4 года назад +18

    My dad went to medical school at NYU and did his internship at Bellevue.

  • @shuffleaccount1985
    @shuffleaccount1985 4 года назад +29

    thank you for this information, I did not know this. Truly Amazing!!!!

  • @hsrviews
    @hsrviews 4 года назад +3

    My mom was born in the first Bellevue hospital and me and my sister was born in the new current one, our doctor since infant was a beautiful nice sweet lady with long long hair Dr wallen or Dr wallin, she unfortunately passed away of cancer, but still was working until her passing. She was a legendary pediatric doctor, I miss playing in the play room and then wen I got a lil bigger I would get to go to the other play room that was more making crafts and paintings and beeds. What an awesome memory.

    • @ERICK-di1yz
      @ERICK-di1yz 2 года назад +3

      The play room on the 4th floor? Amazing times, I remember the playroom with me and my brothers. Wish I could bring back the 2000s 😪

  • @AC-qi9wo
    @AC-qi9wo 4 года назад +10

    Learned something new today;).

  • @Laurieis1
    @Laurieis1 4 года назад +4

    This is awesome

  • @poppetrurazvan3900
    @poppetrurazvan3900 3 года назад +2

    Verry interesting.

  • @catherinetimmerman5212
    @catherinetimmerman5212 4 года назад +2

    An incredibly interesting video!!

  • @blinkcamlove
    @blinkcamlove 4 года назад +1

    I went to NYU dental (around the corner of Bellevue) and I used to walk to Bellevue to study. After I graduated and started my residency, the Ebola crisis came and went to NYC. It was at that moment that I began to think of the possibility of a more contagious outbreak with no cure. But I remember thinking hey if it’s that contagious doctors would be doing everything to find a cure/vaccine. Little did I know that 5 years later coronavirus would change our world forever.

  • @StevenTorrey
    @StevenTorrey 4 года назад +4

    It was a favored punchline in "Barney Miller"....

  • @hsrviews
    @hsrviews 4 года назад +3

    The hospital has a school on the 20 or 21 floor, they had a Christmas album with music teacher Anna opio, and I sang lead on two songs, also I wrote a poem entry to represent that school in the hospital and I read it at a poet reading of different bored of education school entries, I also worked with the director of house keeping as there receptionist for 2 summers, all of this in 1995 to 1997.

  • @RDnAC
    @RDnAC 4 года назад +5

    John Lennon was rushed to and pronounced dead at Roosevelt Hospital (now Mt. Sinai) not Bellevue.

  • @rwnorris24
    @rwnorris24 2 года назад

    Fresh air really does help.

  • @rajdipsutradhar6414
    @rajdipsutradhar6414 29 дней назад

    6:30 the same case in Kolkata govt hospital 8th August,2024 😢, the whole country is shocked and depressed 😔

  • @sdm4186
    @sdm4186 4 года назад +6

    Do they take patients with no health insurance? Just curious.

    • @jai7184
      @jai7184 4 года назад +5

      S DM yes we do !

    • @sct4040
      @sct4040 4 года назад

      NYU Langone (up the streets) sends patients there, the poor, so what do you think?

    • @rebeccajelenawang4306
      @rebeccajelenawang4306 4 года назад

      Got mugged in NYC back in 2010.I'd been in Canada for like three months or so,and visited nearly 15 states too.Anyways,this idiot took all my cash,ID,passport,insurance and meds.Bellevue did indeed help me, but I got discharged twice and really had to fight for my rights to put it that way.A nurse called me European vegetable"tho.I met some really nice ppl I'd like to thank for treating me with respect and dignity.It helped a lot🙏🏼

  • @uinisefoochong5917
    @uinisefoochong5917 Год назад +1

    The hospital I was born at had a name change

  • @JoseMorales-lw5nt
    @JoseMorales-lw5nt 4 года назад +5

    6:17/ Nothing new - Lee Harvey Oswald and John Fitzgerald Kennedy both took their last breath at Parkland Hospital near Downtown Dallas, Texas. Supposedly in the same operating room. 🇵🇷🇺🇸🤔

    • @patriciaasturias1007
      @patriciaasturias1007 4 года назад

      Jose Morales JFK died in the car. If you look at an unedited film, you can see the blast destroying his head.

    • @JoseMorales-lw5nt
      @JoseMorales-lw5nt 4 года назад

      @@patriciaasturias1007 Meanwhile, the official medical report from Parkland Hospital indicates that the President did, in fact, have a faint pulse and heart beat upon being taken into the OR. Pretty gruesome detail most folks don't like to hear. Yet, this man was shot in the head. His heart was still beating from moment of assassination to his last breaths inside Parkland. 🇺🇸🇵🇷😪

    • @patriciaasturias1007
      @patriciaasturias1007 4 года назад

      Jose Morales I don’t know that any report can be trusted as the coverup was so widespread.

    • @JoseMorales-lw5nt
      @JoseMorales-lw5nt 4 года назад

      @@patriciaasturias1007 I'll grant you that one. Yes, I'm of a younger generation that didn't experience his death first hand. Yet, I've always had my doubts about the whole mess. We common folk only have the Zapruder film, thank God! Whether a bullet was meant for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, we'll never know. Yet the film shows no shots to the heart. Shame that no future generations will ever live to see the truth 🇵🇷🇺🇸🤔

    • @theoneleggedchef
      @theoneleggedchef 4 года назад

      Life long Dallas, that's quite possible. From what I understand Parkland at the time had 2 fully equipped ER Rooms. So odds are, gunshot patient Oswald was in same room, or next to. Honestly, I have no opinion. I like history, hate violence.

  • @godoggo407
    @godoggo407 4 года назад +4

    God love Bellevue!

  • @petechippas4586
    @petechippas4586 6 месяцев назад +2

    The psychiatric hospitals in the USA should have NEVER have been closed permanently, because there are now millions of Americans that need to be committed to them!!!

    • @matthewaskaran1912
      @matthewaskaran1912 6 месяцев назад

      Exactly

    • @jeansteele6698
      @jeansteele6698 5 месяцев назад

      The Carter Administration must be blamed . Mrs. Carter played the lead role. Agree. Open up some hospitals. Outpatient therapy is inadequate .

  • @erikperez4829
    @erikperez4829 7 месяцев назад

    my mom always told me i’d end up at bellevue hospital now i work here so i guess she was right 😂

  • @ruthanncaldwell5705
    @ruthanncaldwell5705 4 года назад +1

    You should do a story about GABLER CHILDREN HOSPITAL in waltham mass now closed

  • @christinestange4813
    @christinestange4813 4 года назад

    I took my NP State Boards there in 1980.

  • @Stephanie-vn6ir
    @Stephanie-vn6ir 4 года назад

    Back in the 1990s I had a friend who had a nervous breakdown and she checked herself into Bellevue.😳😊

  • @mariejones3913
    @mariejones3913 4 года назад +13

    the horrors that went on in that place.... smh
    “practicing” medicine!

    • @loribau2842
      @loribau2842 4 года назад +1

      what does smh mean?

    • @jasonchristian958
      @jasonchristian958 4 года назад +3

      @@loribau2842 shaking my head

    • @loribau2842
      @loribau2842 4 года назад +4

      alrighty, been wonderin that for a while, thanks Jason

    • @jasonchristian958
      @jasonchristian958 4 года назад +2

      @@loribau2842 you're welcome 👍

    • @jodrew1845
      @jodrew1845 4 года назад +1

      @@loribau2842 'Shaking My Head.'

  • @markpedroza7294
    @markpedroza7294 4 года назад +1

    Charlie Chaplin's father in law Eugene O'Neill was at Bellevue? I wonder why...

  • @jordanoutten746
    @jordanoutten746 4 года назад +1

    Im sure I'd see one or two apparitions..

  • @laurawesoff5732
    @laurawesoff5732 4 года назад +1

    He didn't show Alice's line as the setup.

    • @laurawesoff5732
      @laurawesoff5732 4 года назад +1

      I call you killer because you slay me.

  • @FMD321
    @FMD321 4 года назад +2

    6TH FLOOR

  • @ceejay1794
    @ceejay1794 4 года назад +9

    John Lennon was taken to Roosevelt Hospital on 59th St, NOT Belleview. Get your facts straight.

    • @ceejay1794
      @ceejay1794 4 года назад +1

      Kathleen Flacy ok Kathreen

    • @Sammy-mp9xn
      @Sammy-mp9xn 4 года назад

      Ok boomer

    • @ceejay1794
      @ceejay1794 4 года назад +1

      Carolina Barbie yes, and you must not be. Sad. You’re the generation who thinks it know everything yet has experienced nothing.

  • @rememrald30
    @rememrald30 3 года назад

    did he just say irish- my mother was so clean u could eat off of her floor- someone is getting called.

  • @jeannetruitt7176
    @jeannetruitt7176 Год назад

    I thought it used to be a Mental hospital according to Barney Miller

  • @rememrald30
    @rememrald30 3 года назад

    nellie da detective

  • @corycampman7336
    @corycampman7336 4 года назад

    Was that a picture of a young Joseph stalin in that one frame or am I seeing things lol?

  • @freolampkin1831
    @freolampkin1831 2 года назад

    Sistha tell send 1795, 3 decades

  • @esgee3829
    @esgee3829 4 года назад

    so what i got from this is that mo rocca is a REAL journalist now when did that happen??????????????

  • @kathrynedmunds9321
    @kathrynedmunds9321 4 года назад +1

    My best childhood girlfriend began serving humanity's ill after a super med school class score. The woman, i hope is live an still busy ! Love her always ! Know her? Surgery , mental ills doctor ? Susan, kathy is cool still dreaming the feeling of hot sands an the Colorado.

  • @jasonchristian958
    @jasonchristian958 4 года назад

    Let's tip toe around on the 6th floor

  • @AlwaysAskQuestion
    @AlwaysAskQuestion Год назад

    I use to be there too

  • @suzanjurist2339
    @suzanjurist2339 4 года назад +5

    My mom worked at Bellevue in the 1940s

  • @petergamer9022
    @petergamer9022 4 года назад +32

    Like for all the doctors around the world!!

  • @misstekhead
    @misstekhead Год назад +2

    I’m too paranoid to give away any personal information, but all I’ll say is that I’ve had 2 family members spend time at Bellevue in the 1960s to 1970s, and the other during the 1990s. Both were placed there due to mental health issues. (Supposedly.) One was turned into a zombie that never recovered, and the other was given shots of Valium and other psychotropic drugs against their will. The 2nd family member was trans and even into the 1990s that was still considered a mental illness. She later took her life.

  • @redcokamixed6716
    @redcokamixed6716 4 года назад +9

    This makes me proud to be a nurse.

  • @spicex4k901
    @spicex4k901 3 года назад +2

    Bellvue turns away 98% of applicants

  • @cards0486
    @cards0486 4 года назад +5

    I guess because it’s an NBC program they didn’t bring up that “NEW AMSTERDAM” is based on a book that a doctor wrote about practicing at Bellevue.
    It was “Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital” by Dr. Eric Manheimer.

  • @maryannedelaney
    @maryannedelaney 4 года назад +5

    Wow. I thought it was just a small psych hospital in NYC. It was great to learn all about the hospital. Thank you.

    • @kishascape
      @kishascape Год назад +1

      It’s the most popular and classical nuthouse. Couple reporters pretended to be insane and got themselves admitted and later wrote exposé articles about the abuse and poor living conditions that made it a mainstay in pop culture.

    • @maryannedelaney
      @maryannedelaney Год назад

      @@kishascape that’s horrible.

  • @jimrogers9253
    @jimrogers9253 3 года назад +1

    WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!! john lennon was taken by police car to roosevelt hospital which was the nearest to the dakota apt. building. he never came to bellevue. i was the thoracic surgery resident on call at bellevue and in the er that night. the fellow in the video is not in command of his facts. jd rogers,md

  • @ekop1778
    @ekop1778 4 года назад +4

    1.13 THATS A PHANTOM SPIRIT LOOMING ON THAT PIC

  • @AllStars2525
    @AllStars2525 4 года назад +3

    Great story!!

  • @deniseroe5891
    @deniseroe5891 2 года назад +1

    I live in Bellevue, Texas that is. Is a wonderful hospital, it has done do much for NYC.

  • @user-zx8de8op9l
    @user-zx8de8op9l 9 дней назад

    The Psych ward is how I heard of the hospital.

  • @sumonanny
    @sumonanny 4 года назад +1

    John Lennon was taken to Roosevelt Hospital, not Bellevue.

  • @theoneleggedchef
    @theoneleggedchef 4 года назад +1

    I loved this story! My Grandma was born in the the city, New York. She just called it the city, in 1917. I'd heard her ans my great uncles talk about those times. But ..having this documentary put a multifaceted face on this that, in a way puts the optics on a slice of life then? I love history, and learning, I want more. But thanks for what has been given!

  • @johnsalazar8969
    @johnsalazar8969 Год назад +1

    I was referred to this hospital when I was 18 and my dad was like I don't think so

  • @uinisefoochong5917
    @uinisefoochong5917 Год назад

    Martin Luther King hospital

  • @valtoton2982
    @valtoton2982 Месяц назад

    *New Amsterdam*

  • @uinisefoochong5917
    @uinisefoochong5917 Год назад

    I hate hospitals

  • @Thesolution2023
    @Thesolution2023 Год назад

    Pray for Jonathan Charles Johnson. He is often admitted here they stabilize him send him off with no were to go back into the street. NYC politicians should be ashamed. Jonathan please come home.

  • @Sammy-mp9xn
    @Sammy-mp9xn 4 года назад

    2:19😲😂 those 2 guys are having a gay ol' time

  • @blackdogslivesmatter1568
    @blackdogslivesmatter1568 4 года назад +9

    I always thought it was just a mental hospital probably from watching Barney Miller.