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- Author: Tom Mueller
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- ISBN-10: 0393866513
- ISBN-13: 9780393866513
- Format: 17.8 x 24.6 x 2.5 cm, kieti viršeliai
- Language: English
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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.
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- Author: Tom Mueller
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- ISBN-10: 0393866513
- ISBN-13: 9780393866513
- Format: 17.8 x 24.6 x 2.5 cm, kieti viršeliai
- Language: English 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.
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