Tom Mueller: How to Make a Killing
How to Make a Killing
Buch
- Death, Dollars and the Business of Blood
- Profile Books, 08/2023
- Einband: Gebunden
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781800818422
- Bestellnummer: 11176874
- Umfang: 277 Seiten
- Auflage: Main
- Gewicht: 480 g
- Maße: 234 x 153 mm
- Stärke: 30 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 1.8.2023
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Klappentext
'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 FrancisSix 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.