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Meet Ricardo Nuila, MD

Ricardo Nuila, MD, is a writer, hospitalist, and associate professor at Baylor College of Medicine. For the past 13years, he has worked as a hospitalist and attending physician at Houston’s largest safety net facility, Ben Taub Hospital. He is the director of the Humanities Expression and Arts Lab (HEAL) at Baylor, which integrates arts and humanities into medical education and has received an Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) grant supporting its work. His work has been featured in The New Yorker, Texas Monthly, The New England Journal of Medicine, and Best American Short Stories. His first book, “The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine,” was featured on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross, is a semi-finalist for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, as well as an Editors’ Pick of Best Books of the Year So Far 2023 by Amazon. In its review, The New York Times notes that Ricardo is a “skillful writer who humanizes his points in meticulous and compassionate detail.”