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Eric Manheimer      

Author of "Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital", Inspiration for the TV Show "New Amsterdam"

Eric Manheimer, MD was the medical director at Bellevue from 1997-2012 and is a Clinical Professor at the New York University School of Medicine. He is an Internist who trained at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York in Internal Medicine. Following his Chief Residency there, he moved to Hanover, New Hampshire where he was a member of Dartmouth Medical School and the Hitchcock Clinic for many years.

He has had a long interest in international health working in Haiti and Pakistan and in medical anthropology, history, the social sciences and literature particularly of Latin America. Along with his wife Diana Taylor, who is a University Professor at New York University, Eric travels extensively in Latin America and Mexico. He has two children and two grandchildren, both of whom were born at Bellevue.

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Former Bellevue medical director finds second career as TV writer
Having served as medical director at Bellevue Hospital from 1997 to 2012, Dr. Eric Manheimer is now re-creating his experiences on NBC's New Amsterdam.
Meet the real-life doctor who inspired 'New Amsterdam'
Dr. Eric Manheimer trained at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, stitching up the arms of looters whose skin had been slashed while stealing TV sets through ...

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