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Book

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

Call Number

  • 617.461 M947 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2023]

Physical Description

277 pages ; 24 cm

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.

Contents

  • 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.

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