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

A fascinating and beautifully written memoir that reminds us what we have with our NHS and what we stand to lose Christie Watson

A tour de force lyrical and riveting prose Abraham Verghese author of Cutting for Stone

Nuila details the horrific reality of the American healthcare system from the front lines and shows us why it doesnt have to be like that Sally Hayden author of My Fourth Time We Drowned

The Peoples Hospital is the story of how Ben Taub Hospital strives to provide healthcare to Houstons 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 lifethreatening illness from Rogelio a twentysomething undocumented immigrant from Mexico recently diagnosed with kidney disease to Roxana a Salvadoran woman who appears in ER after a lifesaving 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 lifesaving treatment that they cannot afford