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"There's an unspoken assumption when you go to see a doctor: the doctor knows your medical story and is making decisions based on that story. But the reality frequently falls short. Medical records vanish when we switch doctors. Critical details of life-saving treatment plans get lost in muddled electronic charts. The doctors we see change according to specialty, hospital shifts, or an insurer's whims. Stanford physician Ilana Yurkiewicz calls this...
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University of Missouri Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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xv, 314 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm
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English
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"Homer G. Phillips Hospital--founded in an era of segregated healthcare and named for the murdered attorney who fought for its existence--became a beacon of hope and healing for the black community and a path to professional progress for hundreds of black physicians and nurses"--
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In The People's Hospital, physician Ricardo Nuila's stunning debut, we follow 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. Nuila delves with empathy...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
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First edition.
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322 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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The United States is embarking on a medical revolution. Supporters of personalized, or precision, medicine--the tailoring of health care to our genomes--have promised to usher in a new era of miracle cures. Advocates of this gene-guided health-care practice foresee a future where skyrocketing costs can be curbed by customization and unjust disparities are vanquished by biomedical breakthroughs. Progress, however, has come slowly, and with a price...
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Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
Pub. Date
[2004]
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1 online resource (52 pages).
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English
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The purpose of the briefing was to examine the role of discrimination and bias in the existence of ongoing health disparities for Native Americans by consulting with tribal leaders, key government officials, leading experts, health care advocates, and concerned citizens. By necessity, the disparities were explored and the causes documented.
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U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
Pub. Date
[1989]
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1 online resource (ix, 513 pages).
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English
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"Preparation of the substantive content of the report was carried out primarily by Commission attorney Thomas J. Balch and Assistant General Counsel Jeffery P. O'Connell. Also contributing to the report were Commission attorneys Vincent A. Mulloy, Susan T. Muskett, and Joseph J. Piccione."--Page v.
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