Better off Dead Book Four

✍ Scribed by Odette C. Bell

• Book ID: 100361910
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 93 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Looks at the lives of four generations of a poor, African-American family in Chicago's North Lawndale neighborhood, who are beset with 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, 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. --Adapted from publisher description.;Introduction -- "Where crowded humanity suffers and sickens": the Banes family and their neighborhood -- The rigors of kidney dialysis for Robert Banes -- Gaps in government insurance for Mrs. Jackson -- Fitful primary care fails Mrs. Jackson -- Mrs. Jackson's melancholy -- The inner-city emergency room -- One hospital's story: how treating the poor is "bad" for business -- Who's responsible for Tommy Markham's health? -- Jackie Banes's "patient" -- Empty promises: preventive care for the Banes children -- Robert Banes plays the transplant game -- The Banes family and white doctors -- Life-sustaining technology -- Amazing grace -- Epilogue.