How to Make a Killing (eBook)

Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine

Tom Mueller (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
288 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-0-393-86652-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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 "e;Medicare for All"e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.8.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
• Schlagworte: Corruption • Diabetes • Dialysis • High blood pressure • Inequality • Kidney Disease • Nephrology • unscrupulous business practices • volunteer patient advocates
• ISBN-10: 0-393-86652-1 / 0393866521
• ISBN-13: 978-0-393-86652-0 / 9780393866520