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The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town
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Author:
Brian Alexander
Publisher:
St. Martin's Press
Date:
March 9, 2021
By following the struggle for survival of one small-town hospital, and the patients who walk, or are carried, through its doors, The Hospital takes readers into the world of the American medical industry in a way no book has done before. Americans are dying sooner, and living in poorer health. Alexander argues that no plan will solve America's health crisis until the deeper causes of that crisis are addressed.
What The Reviewers Say
The business of sickness is perverse. In too many instances, medical interventions are ineffective Band-Aids. Other factors, like where you stand in the social, racial and economic pecking order — and what ZIP code you were born in — determine far more about your health.
A superb account of a small-town hospital whose first priority is delivering high-quality medical care.
Journalist Alexander (Glass House) delivers an anguished and incisive look at the struggles of an independent community hospital in northwestern Ohio.
