How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine

by Tom Mueller

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393866513
• ISBN13: 9780393866513
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 9.7"