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"The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine" by Dr. Ricardo Nuila

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Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors?

"The People’s Hospital," physician Ricardo Nuila’s debut, follows the lives of five uninsured Houstonians as their struggle for survival leads them to a hospital where insurance comes second to genuine care. Each patient eventually lands at Ben Taub, the county hospital where Dr. Nuila has worked for over a decade.

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