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How to Make a Killing
Death, Dollars and the Business of Blood
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How life-saving medicine became a for-profit enterprise that threatens the people it is meant to save
A riveting account of medical innovation, an industry shaped by greed, and the life or death fight for the right to healthcare
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Six decades ago, researchers achieved the impossible: developing a treatment that transformed kidney failure from a death sentence to a manageable condition. Yet, in the hands of a predatory medical industry, this triumph led to skyrocketing costs and worsening care.
A gripping account of privatised healthcare gone wrong, How to Make a Killing recounts how the optimism of the 1950s and 1960s—when transplants and dialysis machines offered hope—gave way to anguished debates about the ethics of rationing and profiting from life-saving care, and how Big Dialysis proliferated at the expense of its patients.
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.
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How to Make a Killing by Tom Mueller has been described as a grimly fascinating exposé that illustrates the potential consequences of the US health economy's incentives. It is a rich narrative depicting a transformation of a medical miracle into a profit-driven machine at the expense of patients. Reviewers highlight its beautiful writing and insightful account of medical technology's possibilities and market dangers, portraying a chilling saga of prioritising profit over patient care.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781800818422
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 01 August 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Profile Books Ltd
Edition: Main
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 30.0mm
Width: 162.0mm
Height: 240.0mm
Weight: 488g
Pages: 288
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About the Author
Tom Mueller is a New York Times bestselling author whose previous books include Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud and Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, and the Atlantic Monthly. He divides his time between the Pacific Northwest and Italy.
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