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Through stories of achievements, challenges and calamities at five large public hospitals in the U.S., King shows that medical excellence resides where few people expect to find it and how those centers are threatened by misplaced public priorities and political mythologies. -- Hank Klibanoff James M. Cox Jr. Professor of Journalism, Emory University; co-author, The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation, 2007 Pulitzer Prize, history In the spirit of investigative journalism, this assessment of public hospitals paints a grim picture of health care for the poor in America]]. [A Spirit of Charity is] a searing and sobering indictment of the public health care system that highlights the inequality of treatment. -- Kirkus Reviews Kirkus Reviews Any effort at health care reform must first understand the essential role of public hospitals, which is what makes A Spirit of Charity required reading for policy makers and health advocates alike. -- Otis Brawley, M.D chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society; former director of the Georgia Cancer Center for Excellence at Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta

In the spirit of investigative journalism, this assessment of public hospitals paints a grim picture of health care for the poor in America]]. [A Spirit of Charity is] a searing and sobering indictment of the public health care system that highlights the inequality of treatment. -- Kirkus Reviews Kirkus Reviews

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