Prologue -- Autumn, 2018. A ready haven of refuge: the battle to control health ; Everybody is coming after this hospital: surviving the business ; Chasing the symptoms: searching for the roots of American sickness ; Powers beyond us: the contagion of the new capitalism ; Pray: the iniquity of inequity -- Winter/Spring, 2018-2019. What free market? The myth of free-market medicine ; The crap end of the stick: the hospital as hope ; Puppies are drowning: the thin safety net ; They don't have to see: the limits of the band-aid station -- Winter/Spring/Summer, 2019-2020. Epilogue: Then everything changed: Covid-19.
Summary:
"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 America's broken medical industry. Bryan, Ohio's hospital, is losing money, making it vulnerable to big health systems seeking domination, and Phil Ennen, CEO, is fighting to preserve its independence. Meanwhile, Bryan, a town of 8,500 people in Ohio's northwest corner, is still trying to recover from the Great Recession. As local leaders struggle to address the town's problems, and the hospital fights for its life amid a rapidly consolidating medical and hospital industry, a thirty-nine-year-old diabetic fights for his limbs, and a fifty-five-year-old contractor lies dying in the emergency room. With riveting storytelling, Alexander strips away the wonkiness of policy to reveal Americans' struggle for health as they battle economic forces and a medical system so fragile it blows apart when the COVID-19 pandemic hits. This book offers a blueprint for how we created the crisis we're in."-- Back cover.
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