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

by Tom Mueller

Book Overview

Six decades ago, visionary doctors achieved the impossible: the humble kidney, acknowledged since ancient times to be as essential to life as the heart, became the first human organ to be successfully replaced with a machine. Yet huge dialysis corporations, ambitious doctor-entrepreneurs and Beltway lobbyists soon turned this medical miracle into an early experiment in for-profit medicine--and one of the nation's worst healthcare catastrophes.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324079053
• ISBN13: 9781324079057
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.2"