Ricardo Nuila is a writer and internal medicine doctor at Houston’s largest public hospital. His first book, The People’s Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine, was selected as one of the Best Books of 2023 by Amazon, Kirkus Review, and Washington Post, and was featured on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross. His essays and stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Texas Monthly, VQR, the New England Journal of Medicine and Best American Short Stories. He directs the Humanities Expression and Arts Lab (HEAL) at Baylor College of Medicine.
At the Library, Nuila will research public hospitals and the historical innovations made by French physicians.