Fragmented: A Doctor's Quest to Piece Together American Health Care

There's an unspoken assumption when we go to see a doctor: the doctor knows our medical story and is making decisions based on that story. But reality often falls short. Medical records vanish when we switch doctors. Critical details of life-saving treatment plans get lost in muddled electronic charts. The doctors we see change according to specialty, hospital shifts, or an insurer's whims.



In this gripping narrative from medicine's front lines, Ilana Yurkiewicz reveals how a system that do...