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100 1  Alexander, Brian,|eauthor. 
245 14 The hospital :|blife, death, and dollars in a small 
       American town /|cBrian Alexander. 
250    First edition. 
263    2103 
264  1 New York :|bSt. Martin's Press,|c2021. 
264  4 |c©2021 
300    307 pages ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-300) and 
       index. 
505 0  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 inequality -- 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. 
520    "An intimate, heart wrenching portrait of one small 
       hospital that reveals the magnitude of America's health 
       care crises. 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 the American medical industry in a way 
       no book has done before. Americans are dying sooner, and 
       living in poorer health. Alexander argues that no plan 
       will solve America's health crisis until the deeper causes
       of that crisis are addressed. Bryan, Ohio's hospital, is 
       losing money, making it vulnerable to big health systems 
       seeking domination and Phil Ennen, CEO, has been 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 39-year-old diabetic literally 
       fights for his limbs, and a 55-year-old contractor lies 
       dying in the emergency room. With these and other stories,
       Alexander strips away the wonkiness of policy to reveal 
       Americans' struggle for health against a powerful system 
       that's stacked against them, but yet so fragile it blows 
       apart when the pandemic hits. Culminating with COVID-19, 
       this book offers a blueprint for how we created the crisis
       we're in"--|cProvided by publisher. 
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650  0 Public health|zOhio|zBryan|xFinance. 
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650  0 Public health|zUnited States. 
650  0 Public health|zUnited States|xFinance. 
650  0 Public health administration|zUnited States. 
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