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Cost of living : essays / Emily Maloney.

by Maloney, Emily.

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Henry Holt and Company, 2022.

Maloney, Emily -- Health.

Chronically ill -- Biography.

Medical care, Cost of. -- Biography.

American essays -- 21st century.

9781250213297 (hc.)

xvi, 222 p. ; 25 cm.

"When Emily Maloney was nineteen she tried to kill herself. An act that would not only cost a great deal personally, but also financially, sending her down a dark spiral of misdiagnoses, years spent in and out of hospitals and doctor’s offices, and tens of thousands owed in medical debt. To work to pay off this crippling burden, Emily becomes an emergency room technician. Doing the grunt work in a hospital, and taking care of patients at their most vulnerable moments, chronicling these interactions in searingly beautiful, surprising ways. Shocking and often slyly humorous, the book is a brilliant examination of just what exactly our troubled healthcare system asks us to pay, as well as a look at what goes on behind the scenes at our hospitals and in the minds of caregivers."

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