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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Stein, Michael
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| Publisher: |
University of North Carolina Press
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| Date: |
12/07/2020
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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"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"--
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