A Texas doctor’s love letter to ‘the People’s Hospital’ (from 2023)
We’re bringing back a favorite episode from 2023 that raises a question as relevant as ever: What if we had a decent, publicly-funded health system, available to everybody, with or without insurance?
We’ve got one, says Dr. Ricardo Nuila. It’s where he works.
And it could be a model for the whole country. Yes, really.
That’s the pitch he made in his 2023 book, The People’s Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine. It’s a love letter to Houston’s Ben Taub hospital, and an argument for bringing Ben Taub’s model, efficient, innovative, and…
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