County The amazing tale of "County" is the story of one of America"s oldest and most unusual urban hospitals. From its inception as a "poor house" dispensing free medical care to indigents, Chicago"s Cook County Hospital has been renowned as a teaching hospital and the healthcare provider of last resort for the city"s uninsured. Ansell covers more than thirty years of its history, beginning in the late 1970s when the author began his internship, to the "Final Rounds" when the enormous iconic Victorian hospital building was replaced. Ansell writes of the hundreds of doctors who underwent rigorous training with him. He writes of politics, from contentious union strik...