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How to make a killing : blood, death and dollars in American medicine

Mueller, Tom 1963- (author.).

Summary: An investigative researcher discusses how the optimism of the a lifesaving technique invented in the 1950s that made kidney failure manageable and not a death sentence has proliferated into a dystopia of skyrocketing costs and worsening care.

Record details

ISBN: 9780393866513
ISBN: 0393866513
Physical Description: print
277 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2023]
Copyright: ©2023

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-264) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Beginnings -- The inner sea -- Dialysis in America -- Who lives, who dies -- Medical miracles, bioethics and dialysis for all -- The roll-up -- On the blood floor -- Musketeers -- The fox in the hen house -- The wisdom of the kidney.