A review by bookreviewswithkb
The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine by Ricardo Nuila

emotional informative

4.25

this book is both an indictment of healthcare in the united states and an exploration of a hospital [Ben Taub in Houston] that prioritizes patients and quality healthcare services over money. Dr. Nuila offers readers insight into the lives of the individual people who suffer as a result of receiving improper healthcare through our current system due to being uninsured or underinsured - how this leads to unnecessary illness, suffering and even death. it provides a decent balance between statistics and policy, and the human impacts, the real implications of our current system