Wine & Words | Beer & Books - With Author Brian Alexander!

186 East South Boundary Street,Perrysburg OH 43551

06 July, 2021

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Wine & Words | Beer & Books - With Author Brian Alexander! Join us for our Book Club where we meet the author and enjoy an adult beverage with them! We meet the first Tuesday of every month at 6:30 pm to discuss a great book with each other, the author, and a beverage of your choice! For our meeting on July 6 we will discuss "The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town" with author Brian Alexander! "Takes readers into the world of the American medical industry in a way no book has done before....details how we’ve created the dilemma we’re in." —Fortune Bryan, Ohio's hospital, is losing money, making it vulnerable to big health systems seeking domination and Phil Ennen, CEO, has been fighting to preserve its independence. Meanwhile, Bryan, a town of 8,500 people in Ohio’s northwest corner, is still trying to recover from the Great Recession. As local leaders struggle to address the town’s problems, and the hospital fights for its life amid a rapidly consolidating medical and hospital industry, a 39-year-old diabetic literally fights for his limbs, and a 55-year-old contractor lies dying in the emergency room. With these and other stories, Alexander strips away the wonkiness of policy to reveal Americans’ struggle for health against a powerful system that’s stacked against them, but yet so fragile it blows apart when the pandemic hits. Culminating with COVID-19, this book offers a blueprint for how we created the crisis we're in. You can order the book here: https://gatheringvolumes.com/?q=h.tviewer&using_sb=status&qsb=keyword&qse=pAG4rDFNcox9hKSsBVoQpg