How to Make a Killing - Death, Dollars and the Business of Blood (Hardcover, Main)

'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.

General

Imprint:	Profile Books Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2023
First published:	2023
Authors:	Tom Mueller
Dimensions:	240 x 162 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	288
Edition:	Main
ISBN-13:	978-1-80081-842-2
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Manufacturing industries > Hi-tech manufacturing industries Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Renal medicine > General
LSN:	1-80081-842-4
Barcode:	9781800818422

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