How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine

Six decades ago, researchers achieved the impossible: a treatment that made kidney failure a manageable condition instead...
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Author: Tom Mueller
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How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine by Mueller, Tom

How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine

€41,97

How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine

€41,97
Author: Tom Mueller
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Six decades ago, researchers achieved the impossible: a treatment that made kidney failure a manageable condition instead of a death sentence. And yet, in the hands of a predatory medical industry, this triumph led to skyrocketing costs and worsening care.

A gripping microcosm of American health care gone wrong, How to Make a Killing recounts how the optimism of the 1950s and 1960s--when transplants and early dialysis machines offered hope--gave way to anguished debates about the ethics of rationing (and profiting from) life-saving care. After Congress made renal disease the only "Medicare for All" condition, Big Dialysis proliferated, and the Hippocratic oath gave way to the profit motive.

A triumph of investigative research, Tom Mueller's book features an unforgettable cast of characters: CEOs who dress as Musketeers to exhort more aggressive profit-seeking, nephrologist insiders who reveal the substandard care this causes, and heroic patients who risk their lives to reveal the truth.



Author: Tom Mueller
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 08/01/2023
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780393866513


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 12/01/2022 pg. 24

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