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PublisherScribner
ISBN-101501198041
ISBN-139781501198045
eBay Product ID (ePID)12057270656
Product Key Features
Number of Pages384 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NamePeople's Hospital : Hope and Peril in American Medicine
SubjectEthics, Public Health, Medical, Hospital Administration & Care
Publication Year2023
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaBiography & Autobiography, Medical
AuthorRicardo Nuila
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight18.7 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2023-393147
Reviews"In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the impetus for transforming the American health system is more urgent than ever. Dr. Ricardo Nuila offers us a path forward in The People's Hospital , grounded in years of caring for patients, bearing witness to their stories, and observing how they link into the mosaic that is modern medicine. With humanity and humility, he guides us from a place of deep understanding, rooted in low-income communities in Houston, to a destination of healthcare as a human right for the entire country." --Dave A. Chokshi, MD, 43rd Health Commissioner of New York City "Through poignant accounts of his patients, contextualized by medical history and layered with bits of family memoir, Ricardo Nuila has achieved the impossible: writing a comprehensive, personal, and gut-wrenching account of the American healthcare system. Patients, politicians, doctors, insurance companies, and people everywhere will benefit from this insider's description of Ben Taub Hospital in Houston, Texas. In The People's Hospital we are given a diagnosis of our current healthcare system but are also offered an imagining of a better future for everyone." -- Javier Zamora, author of Solito "Ricardo Nuila takes a literary scalpel to the U.S. medical system to reveal the cancer of greed ravaging patients in Houston and throughout the country. Fortunately for us, his skillful, even beautiful dissection of the disease of false hope reveals the healthy, pumping heart of living, breathing and serving doctors and workers of Ben Taub hospital. The People's Hospital is the antidote to hopelessness in healthcare that prevails." -- Roberto Lovato, author of Unforgetting, "Ricardo Nuila takes a literary scalpel to the U.S. medical system to reveal the cancer of greed ravaging patients in Houston and throughout the country. Fortunately for us, his skillful, even beautiful dissection of the disease of false hope reveals the healthy, pumping heart of living, breathing and serving doctors and workers of Ben Taub hospital. The People's Hospital is the antidote to hopelessness in healthcare that prevails." --Roberto Lovato, author of Unforgetting
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Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal362.1109764
Synopsis"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 disqualifies him for Medicaid--and puts a life-saving transplant just out of reach. Roxana, who's lived in the community without a visa for more than two decades, suffers from complications related to her cancer treatment. And finally, there's Ebonie, a young mother whose high-risk pregnancy endangers her life. Whether due to immigration status, income, or the vagaries of state Medicaid law, all five are denied access to care. For all five, this exclusion could prove life-threatening. Each patient eventually lands at Ben Taub, the county hospital where Dr. Nuila has worked for over a decade. Nuila delves with empathy into the experiences of his patients, braiding their dramas into a singular narrative that contradicts the established idea that the only way to receive good health care is with good insurance. As readers follow the moving twists and turns in each patient's story, it's impossible to deny that our system is broken--and that Ben Taub's innovative model, where patient care is more important than insurance payments, could help light the path forward., Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In The People's Hospital , physician Ricardo Nuila's stunning debut, we follow the lives of five uninsured Houstonians as their struggle for survival leads them to a hospital where insurance comes second to genuine care. 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 disqualifies him for Medicaid--and puts a life-saving transplant just out of reach. Roxana, who's lived in the community without a visa for more than two decades, suffers from complications related to her cancer treatment. And finally, there's Ebonie, a young mother whose high-risk pregnancy endangers her life. Whether due to immigration status, income, or the vagaries of state Medicaid law, all five are denied access to care. For all five, this exclusion could prove life-threatening. Each patient eventually lands at Ben Taub, the county hospital where Dr. Nuila has worked for over a decade. Nuila delves with empathy into the experiences of his patients, braiding their dramas into a singular narrative that contradicts the established idea that the only way to receive good healthcare is with good insurance. As readers follow the movingly rendered twists and turns in each patient's story, it's impossible to deny that our system is broken--and that Ben Taub's innovative model, which emphasizes people over payments, could help light the path forward.
LC Classification NumberRA975.U72N85 2023
