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    Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America

    By Laurie Kaye Abraham and David A. Ansell, MD

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    Both alarming and enlightening, Mama Might Be Better Off Dead is a deep examination into the accessibility, and lack thereof, of health care in America.

    Despite its close proximity to the most prominent healthcare facilities in Chicago, North Lawndale is one of the most medically underserved communities in the US. Author Laurie Kaye Abraham chronicles the lives of the Barnes family as they contend with multiple medical crises. Representing four generations of a poor, African-American family, the Barnes family moves from the emergency room to trials with home care, to dialysis centers, to struggles for Medicaid eligibility. Written in an accepting, matter-of-fact tone, their story uncovers a health care system that fails the vulnerable people it was designed to protect.

    Initially published to high praise in 1993, this new edition includes an exclusive forward by David Ansell, MD, a physician who worked at Mt. Sinai Hospital, where the Banes family’s story unfolds.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
    Release dateMay 10, 2019
    ISBN9780226623849

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      This book is a through-and-through condemnation of urban healthcare in America. Its data and case studies underline the hard reality in urban America: people may be equal, but their healthcare is most definitely not.