How to make a killing

blood death and dollars in American medicine
Tom Mueller
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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.

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Main Author: Mueller, Tom, 1963- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2023]
Edition:First edition.
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505 0 |a 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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