title: TAKE THIS BOOK TO THE HOSPITAL
author: People'S Medical Society
description: Inlander, coauthor of Medicine on Trial ( LJ 5/1/88) and Medicare Made Easy ( LJ 4/1/89), is a forthright advocate of medical consumerism. In the preface to this new edition of the 1985 original ( LJ 7/85), he writes, "Despite all the rhetoric, all the advertising, all the money spent, a hospital stay in the 1990's is no safer than it was in the 1980's." Once considered sarcastic and strident, his words now read like pretty mundane stuff as people become more skeptical and vigilant about decisions that affect their medical care. Nothing in the first edition has been removed, although statistics have been updated and forms have been reworded for greater clarity. The only new additions are two chapters on "Dying at the Hospital" and on Medicare--both rapidly changing topics. The first edition still makes sense; but if all your copies have gone to the hospital, this second edition is a good purchase. Recommended. See also Inlander and Karla Morales's Getting the Most for Your Medical Dollar , reviewed above.--Ed.<br /><i>- Evelyn L. Mott, Palm Beach Cty. Lib., West Palm Beach, Fla.</i><br />Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: About the Book
  
  Welcome to _Hospital Babylon_ , where patients get lost, the healthy get sick
  and spare kidneys get flown in from the Indian subcontinent.
  
  Meet the doctors who sleep with nurses. Nurses who sleep with patients. And
  patients who spit, scream, vomit and fight. There are doctors who pump up
  breasts, plump lips and steal Class A drugs from patients in cardiac arrest.
  There’s the doctor who cops a feel and Doctor Feelgood, who will give you
  anything and everything you need…
  
  Now is your chance to find out why a private room costs over £1,000 a night.
  Who is changing your bedpan? Holding your hand as you go under? What do they
  do to you while you’re out cold? And what happens when it all goes wrong?
  
  Packed with true stories, revealing anecdotes and shocking anonymous
  confessions from some of the medical world’s most eminent professionals,
  _Hospital Babylon_ is a riveting account of twenty-four hours in the life of
  an Accident and Emergency department. Hilarious and appallin