How to Make a Killing, 9780393866513
Hardcover
Lifesaving treatment turned profit machine: greed in American healthcare.

How to Make a Killing

blood, death and dollars in american medicine

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  • Hardcover

    288 pages

  • Release Date

    1 August 2023

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Summary

How to Make a Killing: The Dark Side of Life-Saving Care

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 d…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780393866513
ISBN-10:0393866513
Author:Tom Mueller
Publisher:WW Norton & Co
Imprint:WW Norton & Co
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:1 August 2023
Weight:477g
Dimensions:239mm x 160mm x 25mm
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Critics Review

New York Times best-selling author Tom Mueller very well could be rocking the foundations of many a corporate boardroom with this book.– “Dialysis Ethics”Tom Mueller’s How to Make a Killing is a rich and sweeping saga that is, sadly, a quintessentially American story: How a miracle medical machine transformed into profit machine, sick and suffering patients be damned.–Jesse Eisinger, author of The Chickenshit ClubTom Mueller goes deep, then wide, then straight for the jugular of the corporate predators who are getting rich by exploiting the poor and vulnerable. Anybody who can read How to Make a Killing without getting outraged must be unconscious. This book raised my blood pressure by at least thirty points.–Carl Elliott, author of White Coat, Black Hat and Better Than Well

About The Author

Tom Mueller

Tom Mueller’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, National Geographic, New York Times Magazine, and Atlantic. He is the author of the New York Times best-selling Extra Virginity about food fraud, and Crisis of Conscience on whistleblowers and their enemies.

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