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“Through poignant accounts of his 

patients, contextualized by medical history and layered with bits of family memoir,  Ricardo Nuila has achieved the impossible:  writing a comprehensive, personal, and

gut-wrenching account of the American healthcare system.”

Javier Zamora, author of Solito

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The PEOPLE'S HOSPITAL

HOPE and PERIL in AMERICAN MEDICINE

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More Than You Want To Know

I work as an internal medicine doctor and hospitalist in my hometown of Houston. It’s hard to imagine practicing medicine anywhere else but at a safety-net hospital, where the focus is a person’s healthcare problem.

My experiences as a doctor give my writing its fuel. I focus mostly on health disparities, how policies affect real people, and the interface between art and medicine. I’ve written for Texas Monthly, VQR, The New York Times Sunday Review, The Atlantic.com, and The New England Journal of Medicine. I also covered Hurricane Harvey and the COVID pandemic for The New Yorker.

 

My short stories have appeared in the Best American Short Stories anthology as well as in McSweeney’s and other literary magazines. The New England Review published one of my short stories and awarded me its inaugural Emerging Writer’s Award.

 

I also direct the Humanities Expression and Arts Lab (HEAL) at Baylor College of Medicine. This lab develops educational materials and experiences that weave the arts and humanities into medical education.

Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Fiction
Fiction
Iterviews

Interviews

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NPR

Fresh Air with Terry Gross

"I like that I have the time to be able to hear my patients' stories, that I don't have to think about billing all the time"

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Austin's NPR Station

KUT Texas Standard

"Well, I think it’s integral to the book. I started off wanting to write about health care. I didn’t know how."

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Houston Public Media

Houston Matters with Craig Cohen

"A restaurant franchise manager. A young mother with a high-risk pregnancy. A college student working retail. A man on disability..."

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An Arm and a Leg

A doctor's love letter to the People's Hospital

"You see this model and it makes you think : Can things be different?"

Events
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Events

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March 22, 2023 

In Conversation with Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Andrea Elliott - Greenlight Bookstore (virtual)

Andrea Elliott--author of Invisible Child, a NY Times Top 10 Book of 2022 and Pulitzer Prize winner in nonfiction--and I will discuss The People's Hospital. Hosted by Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn.

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Dr. Nuila spent four months at the Paisano Ranch, J. Frank Dobie’s 254-acre retreat west of Austin, now owned and maintained by The University of Texas at Austin.

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