How to Make a Killing
Death, Dollars and the Business of Blood
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Profile Books Ltd
Publishing:17th Jul '25
£10.99
This title is due to be published on 17th July, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
This paperback is available in another edition too:
- Hardback£20.00(9781800818422)
A riveting account of medical innovation, an industry shaped by greed, and the life or death fight for the right to healthcare
'A terrifying story of profit before patients, and a chilling glimpse of what can happen when private companies are allowed to take charge of healthcare.' Gavin Francis 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.
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 * Jesse Eisinger *
ISBN: 9781800818439
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288 pages