White Coat Tales

About the Book

Walk the wards of the real Cook County emergency department, catch babies in cars on the streets of Brooklyn, experience the heart wrenching and warming triumphs and trials of medical students training in Pittsburgh and on the floors of Chicago’s Mount Sinai Hospital as you tag along with the men and women of White Coat Tales.  Contributed by physicians from all over the country, this anthology of short stories over the decades reveals the world of medicine embedded within the urban cultures of metropolitan cities and representing eras of doctoring from the 1940’s to today. 

About the Author

Joseph S. Sanfilippo, M.D., M.B.A. is Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Vice Chairman, Reproductive Sciences at Magee-Womens Hospital. After residency in Obstetrics & Gynecology at The State University of New York Upstate Medical Center he completed a Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility fellowship at University of Louisville School of Medicine. Dr. Sanfilippo has authored over eighty peer-reviewed articles and contributed to over sixty textbook chapters. His current textbook, entitled Clinical Gynecology, will be released in 2006. Dr. Sanfilippo is President of The American Society for Reproductive Medicine. He has dedicated his career to academic medicine and trained students, residents and fellows since graduation from the Chicago Medical School in 1973.

Prabhjot Uppal, M.D. is a graduate of the Chicago Medical School, class of 2005.  Originally from Merced and Pebble Beach, California she completed her undergraduate studies at Santa Clara University and received her Masters in Science in Applied Physiology prior to medical school.  Dr. Uppal completed her clinical training in the near westside hospitals of Chicago. She is also the author of Doctors Are People Too: A Treatise on Health Care Reform.