Oral history and transcript for an interview with Alice Gervasini, Strong Medicine Oral History Project

Oral history and transcript for an interview with Alice Gervasini, Strong Medicine Oral History Project

Boston Marathon Bombing, Boston, Mass., 2013

Massachusetts General Hospital

Gervasini, Alice

Trauma surgery

Emergency Medicine

Oral histories

Transcripts

Sound recordings

Oral history and a transcript for an interview between Strong Medicine Project Coordinator Joan Ilacqua and Alice Gervasini, Nurse Director for Trauma and Emergency Surgery Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. Taken 11 June 2014 at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. Topics include spending time with family on Marathon Monday, trauma and critical care at Massachusetts General Hospital, emergency management, taking care of patients and staff, the influence and impact of celebrities on patient healing, and President Obama’s visit to Massachusetts General Hospital. Full transcript and audio recording are only available to researchers at the Center for the History of Medicine.

Strong Medicine Oral History Project

Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine) (repository)

11 June 2014

Ilacqua, Joan (interviewer)

Gervasini, Alice (interviewee)

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1 oral history (1 recording, 1.69 GB), and transcript (40 pages)

Digital audio format

English

Interview undertaken as part of the Strong Medicine Oral History Project, Spring 2014

Joan Ilacqua

Alice Gervasini

Digital audio format

00:52:32

4.6 Mbps