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Little, Brown Book Group The People's Hospital: The Real Cost of Life in an Uncaring Health System
How do medical staff offer care and hope to patients and families when faced with the mayhem and lottery of a broken healthcare system?'A fascinating and beautifully written memoir that reminds us what we have with our NHS - and what we stand to lose' Christie Watson'A tour de force... lyrical and riveting prose' Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone'Nuila details the horrific reality of the American healthcare system from the front lines, and shows us why it doesn't have to be like that' Sally Hayden, author of My Fourth Time, We DrownedThe People's Hospital is the story of how Ben Taub Hospital strives to provide healthcare to Houston's most vulnerable population, against the background of the chaos of American healthcare. By telling the frequently heartbreaking stories of patients who have had to battle their desperate financial circumstances as well as life-threatening illness - from Rogelio, a twenty-something, undocumented immigrant from Mexico recently diagnosed with kidney disease, to Roxana, a Salvadoran woman who appears in ER after a life-saving surgery resulted in her developing potentially fatal complications - and many more. These are extraordinary stories in which doctors are tied up with complex moral questions about money versus healthcare, and patients manipulate their health conditions in dangerous ways in order to be eligible for life-saving treatment that they cannot afford.
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Little, Brown Book Group The Peoples Hospital
How do medical staff offer care and hope to patients and families when faced with the mayhem and lottery of a broken healthcare system?''Terrifying, whistleblowing'' DAILY MAIL''Compelling... gripping'' GUARDIAN''Fascinating and beautifully written... reminds us what we have with our NHS - and what we stand to lose'' CHRISTIE WATSONThe People''s Hospital is the story of how Ben Taub Hospital strives to provide healthcare to Houston''s most vulnerable population, against the background of the chaos of American healthcare. By telling the frequently heartbreaking stories of patients who have had to battle their desperate financial circumstances as well as life-threatening illness - from Rogelio, a twenty-something, undocumented immigrant from Mexico recently diagnosed with kidney disease, to Roxana, a Salvadoran woman who appears in ER after a life-saving surgery resulted in her developing potenti
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Scribner The Peoples Hospital
“Nuila’s storytelling gifts place him alongside colleagues like Atul Gawande.” —Los Angeles Times This “compelling mixture of health care policy and gripping stories from the frontlines of medicine” (The Guardian) explores the question: where does an uninsured person go when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors?Here, we follow the lives of five uninsured Houstonians as their struggle for survival leads them to a hospital that prioritizes people over profit. First, we meet Stephen, the restaurant franchise manager who signed up for his company’s lowest priced plan, only to find himself facing insurmountable costs after a cancer diagnosis. Then Christian—a young college student and retail worker who can’t seem to get an accurate diagnosis, let alone treatment, for his debilitating knee pain. Geronimo, thirty-six years old, has liver failure, but his meager disability check disquali
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