The Business of Medicine Fails Many American Patients

The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine, by Ricardo Nuila (Scribner, 2023), is a brilliant analysis of the reasons for the failure of our present health care system to meet the needs of patients. It is also a setting for the stories of patients whom Nuila encounters as a hosp...

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Main Author: Dubler, Nancy N. 1941- (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Wiley 2023
In: The Hastings Center report
Year: 2023, Volume: 53, Issue: 2, Pages: 46-47
Further subjects:B patient narratives
B Book review
B American health care system
B medicine as a business
B safety-net hospital
B failing healthcare system
B clinical ethics
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Summary:The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine, by Ricardo Nuila (Scribner, 2023), is a brilliant analysis of the reasons for the failure of our present health care system to meet the needs of patients. It is also a setting for the stories of patients whom Nuila encounters as a hospitalist at Ben Taub, a safety-net hospital (in the shadow of the medical metropolis of Houston) that cares for all who arrive at its doors. The book is a masterful weaving of data on how money has corrupted the medical establishment and the effects on patients and those who love them.
ISSN:1552-146X
Contains:Enthalten in: Hastings Center, The Hastings Center report
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1002/hast.1473