How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine
Tom Mueller
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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.
- Format: Inbunden
- ISBN: 9780393866513
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 288
- Utgivningsdatum: 2023-08-01
- Förlag: W. W. Norton & Company