The People's Hospital: The Real Cost of Life in an Uncaring Health System

Ricardo Nuila

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The story of the Ben Taub Hospital in Houston - an angry, political book and a reminder of why Britain must value the NHS.

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 WATSON

The 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.

Praise for The People's Hospital: The Real Cost of Life in an Uncaring Health System

A fascinating and beautifully written memoir that reminds us what we have with our NHS - and what we stand to lose - Christie Watson
Terrifying, whistleblowing - Daily Mail
A compelling mixture of healthcare policy and gripping stories from the frontlines of medicine - Guardian
Nuila unbraids the interlocked strands of hospitals, health insurance companies, Big Pharma and profit-minded physicians, all unified in the purpose of solving sickness through the mechanism of business. He humanizes his points in meticulous and compassionate detail... A skilful writer - New York Times
A rare and unforgettable work, The People's Hospital takes us deep into the lives of some of America's poorest patients. Following in the tradition of Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy and Atul Gawande's Being Mortal, Nuila makes a revelatory passage through a system that is both flawed and primed for reform - Andrea Elliott, author of Invisible Child

Ricardo Nuila

Ricardo Nuila is an attending physician and hospitalist at Baylor College of Medicine, where he teaches the practice of internal medicine and medical humanities. As a faculty member in the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, he co-directs the Program of Narrative Medicine. Ricardo also teaches in the Medicine & Society program at the University of Houston Honors College. Ricardo's essays on medical ethics and health disparities have appeared in the New Yorker.