M.D. Ricardo Nuila

My own journeys through the U.S. healthcare system have convinced me that it is totally broken. Doctor and nurses and technicians strive mightily to deal with patients as fellow human beings but the hospital administrators, insurance brokers and lab and imaging companies all clearly prioritize profits over people. Dr. Nuila not only admits this problem, he decodes it through the stories of patients he has encountered at a publicly funded safety net hospital. He is not simply a fine writer or doctor, he is a compassionate human being dealing with people in great distress. This makes for a powerful book by a man whose moral compass is fine-tuned to true north.… (altro)