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Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America Audiobook, by Laurie Kaye Abraham Play Audiobook Sample

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

Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America Audiobook, by Laurie Kaye Abraham Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Lisa Reneé Pitts Publisher: Tantor Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 9.67 hours at 1.5x Speed 7.25 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: December 2021 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781666144307

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

24

Longest Chapter Length:

58:10 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

01:40 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

36:08 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

North Lawndale, a neighborhood that lies in the shadows of Chicago's Loop, is surrounded by some of the city's finest medical facilities, Yet, it is one of the sickest, most medically underserved communities in the country.

Mama Might Be Better Off Dead immerses listeners in the lives of four generations of a poor, African-American family in the neighborhood, who are beset with the devastating illnesses that are all too common in America's inner-cities. Headed by Jackie Banes, who oversees the care of a diabetic grandmother, a husband on kidney dialysis, an ailing father, and three children, the Banes family contends with countless medical crises. From visits to emergency rooms and dialysis units, to trials with home care, to struggles for Medicaid eligibility, Laurie Kaye Abraham chronicles their access—or more often, lack thereof—to medical care. Their story reveals an inadequate health care system that is further undermined by the direct and indirect effects of poverty.

Both disturbing and illuminating, Mama Might Be Better Off Dead is an unsettling, profound look at the human face of health care in America. Published to great acclaim in 1993, the book in this new edition includes an incisive foreword by David Ansell, a physician who worked at Mt. Sinai Hospital, where much of the Banes family's narrative unfolds.

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