Broke: Patients Talk about Money with Their Doctor (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781469661148)

In this age of shortened office visits, doctors take care of their patients' immediate needs and often elide their own personal histories. But as reflected in Broke, Michael Stein takes the time to listen to the experiences of his patients whose financial challenges complicate every decision in life they make. Stein asks his patients to tell him about their financial conditions not only to find out how to better treat them but also to bear witness to their very survival and the power of human resilience. Stein's intimate vignettes capture these encounters, allowing his patients to offer profound, moving, and unguarded reflections about their struggles, sometimes in a single sentence.

Broke is a quietly passionate critique of a country that has grown callous to the plight of the poor, the tens of millions of people in the United States who live below the poverty line and who have no obvious path to security. Full of heartbreaking and surprising details and framed by a wry, knowing, and empathic humor, there is no other book that illuminates the experience of people facing economic hardship in this way.

Author: Michael Stein
ISBN-10: 1469661144
ISBN-13: 9781469661148
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Language: English
Published: 12/07/2020
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 6.90h x 4.90w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 12/01/2020 pg. 102