Alan M. de León’s Reviews > The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine > Status Update
Alan M. de León
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“To receive good medical care that is streamlined and straightforward, multiple factors must come together. Depending on how someone receives insurance, a patient has to make sure their job remains steady, or has to stay married, or has to make sure they earn enough for co-pays and treatment. Any disruption of this delicate order can result in the illness running rampant… when the patient is most vulnerable.”
— Jan 27, 2026 06:13PM
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Alan M. de León
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“Patients and doctors, nurses and social workers - most people who’ve entered an emergency room or a doctor’s office know something is wrong with healthcare in America today. Instead of correcting the problem, however, we’ve all decided to accept the issues as permanent… But the costs remain unaffordable… We Americans are suffering collectively from disaster syndrome.”
— Jan 30, 2026 09:16AM
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“I’d rather practice in a system focused on people over profit. Whether or not the country is ready for such a shift requires us to explore the real price of unaffordable heathcare.”
— Jan 29, 2026 05:45AM
Alan M. de León
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“Algorithmania is the unexamined use of clinical roadmaps… the compulsion to force patients onto a step-by-step decision tree when complexities in the illness or person’s life ought to keep them off. An algorithmaniac puts the doctor’s desire to give a quick and uncomplicated answer above the patient’s need for help.”
— Jan 28, 2026 05:09PM
Alan M. de León
is on page 183 of 370
“The patient-doctor relationship was so complex that it required connecting with people at multiple levels that went beyond science. People’s circumstances - like how a bus schedule might govern their lives - could make as much a difference in a therapy’s effectiveness as the therapy itself. Science didn’t easily allow for those considerations of context.”
— Jan 27, 2026 06:18PM
Alan M. de León
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“The majority of my patients at Ben Taub had been Latino.”
— Jan 23, 2026 08:52AM
Alan M. de León
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“That was the problem with pocket medicine. It was all out of proportion.”
— Jan 23, 2026 07:25AM
Alan M. de León
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“Whether or not someone had insurance impacted their health as much as, or possibly more than, genetics.”
— Jan 23, 2026 05:48AM
Alan M. de León
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“The healthcare we experience today is the most extreme version of business driving care… ‘I’m really sorry you’re from the United States States,’ he said.”
— Jan 21, 2026 03:29PM
Alan M. de León
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“We might pay for our care, as a customer would, through insurance premiums and co-pays, but our bodies are the merchandise… Private health insurance is the root of our own healthcare problems.”
— Jan 20, 2026 03:31PM
Alan M. de León
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“The rumor we heard was that patients arrived with hand-drawn maps, our hospital marked like a treasure.”
— Jan 19, 2026 05:19PM
