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'A compelling mixture of healthcare policy and gripping stories from the frontlines of medicine' Guardian

How do medical staff offer care and hope to patients and families when faced with the mayhem and lottery of a broken healthcare system?

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.

'A tour de force' Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone

'A compelling mixture of healthcare policy and gripping stories from the frontlines of medicine' Guardian

How do medical staff offer care and hope to patients and families when faced with the mayhem and lottery of a broken healthcare system?

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.

'A tour de force' Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone

Über den Autor
Ricardo Nuila
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Importe, Technik allg.
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780349143439
ISBN-10: 0349143439
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Nuila, Ricardo
Hersteller: Little, Brown Book Group
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 126 x 197 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Ricardo Nuila
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.04.2024
Gewicht: 0,3 kg
Artikel-ID: 128776916

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