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In 2003, economist Helene Jorgensen was bitten by a blood-thirsty tick and thus began her new, unpaid, and full-time job—sojourner through the U.S. health care system. Her five-year odyssey reveals the many inefficiencies and irrationalities that both characterize the system and put lives at risk. In Sick and Tired, Jorgensen takes a closer look at the institutional failures at every stage of the health care system, including diagnosis, treatment, insurance, and prescriptions. Having surveyed those failures, she offers practical guidelines for their correction.

“Through her experience, Jorgensen has developed a practical and gripping guidebook to getting sick in America…Jorgensen concludes with a thoughtful chapter on reform.” Publishers Weekly

“Dr. Helene Jorgensen was unlucky enough to get sick, and she ended up getting a hair-raising tour of the failures of the American health care delivery system. In response, she wrote a little book everyone who has a body and lives in American should read.” Jordan Fisher Smith, Author