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The Knickerbocker Hospital [1] [2] was a 228-bed hospital [3] in New York City located at 70 Convent Avenue, corner of West 131st Street in Harlem, serving primarily ...
The Knick is an American medical period drama television series on Cinemax created by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler and directed by Steven Soderbergh.The series follows Dr. John W. Thackery and the staff at a fictionalized version of the Knickerbocker Hospital (the Knick) in New York during the early twentieth century.
Knickerbocker Hospital, 70 Convent Ave, Manhattan. Incorporated as the Manhattan Dispensary on May 23, 1862, became a hospital in 1885, renamed J. Hood Wright Memorial Hospital on August 31, 1895, renamed Knickerbocker Hospital on June 16, 1913. Current building constructed in 1926, closed in 1979. Now senior housing. [138] [139]
The series is set in New York City in the early twentieth century and follows the staff of the Knickerbocker Hospital (the Knick), who struggle against the limitations of medical understanding and practice. The protagonist is Dr. John Thackery, the new leader of the surgery staff, who balances his cocaine and opium addictions against his ...
The series is set in New York City in the early twentieth century and follows the staff of the Knickerbocker Hospital (the Knick), who struggle against the limitations of medical understanding and practice. The protagonist is Dr. John Thackery, the new leader of the surgery staff, who balances his cocaine and opium addictions against his ...
The Knick is an American television drama series on Cinemax created by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler, directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Clive Owen.It looks at the professional and personal lives of Dr. John W. Thackery (played by Owen) and the staff at a fictionalized version of the Knickerbocker Hospital ("the Knick") in New York during the early part of the twentieth century.
At the time, addicts were lucky to find a hospital bed to detox in. A hundred years ago, the federal government began the drug war with the Harrison Act, which effectively criminalized heroin and other narcotics. Doctors were soon barred from addiction maintenance, until then a common practice, and hounded as dope peddlers.
Knickerbocker Hospital; L. Leonard Hall (Shaw University) Lincoln Hospital (Bronx) Lincoln Hospital (Durham, North Carolina) M. Meharry Medical College;