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Book SynopsisBEST OF THE 2022 RUSA Book & Media AWARDS One of Biblioracle's 8 favorite nonfiction books of 2021 in the Chicago Tribune The New York Post''s BEST BOOKS OF 2021 USA Today''s 5 BOOKS NOT TO MISS
Alexander nimbly and grippingly translates the byzantine world of American health care into a real-life narrative with people you come to care about. New York Times
Takes readers into the world of the American medical industry in a way no book has done before. Fortune
By following the struggle for survival of one small-town hospital, and the patients who walk, or are carried, through its doors, The Hospital takes readers into the world of the American medical industry in a way no book has done before. Americans are dying sooner, and living in poorer health. Alexander argues that no plan will solve America's health crisis until the deeper causes of that crisis are addressed.
