HOPE AND PERIL IN AMERICAN MEDICINE

2:30 pm - 3:15 pm
| Location of Session: Hawn Holt Family Auditorium
Adult Sessions

Start of Signing: 3:30 pm
| Signing Location: Festival Marketplace

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About the Event

Where does one go without health insurance? When turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In The People’s Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine, Dr. Ricardo Nuila—an advocate for people over payments—follows the lives of five uninsured Texans as their struggle for survival leads to a hospital where insurance comes second to genuine care.

About the Author

Photo Credit: Jonas Mohr

Ricardo Nuila

Dr. Ricardo Nuila is a writer, teacher, and practicing doctor. He is an associate professor of medicine, medical ethics, and health policy at Baylor College of Medicine, where he directs the Humanities Expression and Arts Lab (HEAL) program. Additionally, he is a writer with pieces appearing in Texas Monthly, Houston Chronicle, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic and (of course) The New England Journal of Medicine. His short stories have appeared in the Best American Short Stories anthology, McSweeney’s and The New England Review, which awarded him its inaugural Emerging Writer’s Award. His debut book, The People’s Hospital, follows the lives of five uninsured Houstonians as their struggle for survival leads them to a hospital where insurance comes second to genuine care.

Moderator

Kiran Kaur Bains

Kiran Kaur Bains is the Executive Director of SA2020, a nonprofit that drives progress toward San Antonio’s shared community vision. Kiran loves reading about books as much as she loves reading books, and she always reads the acknowledgements first.