How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death, and Dollars in American Medicine
Written by Tom Mueller
Narrated by Melissa Kay Benson
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With powerful insight and on-the-ground reporting, Tom Mueller introduces an unforgettable cast of characters. Heroic patients risk their lives to blow the whistle on how they've been mistreated. An unpaid activist living in a south Georgia trailer park fights to save patients from involuntary discharge from their lifesaving care. Industry insiders put their careers on the line to speak out about the endemic wrongs and pervasive inequality they've witnessed-and about dialysis executives who dress as musketeers and Star Wars characters to exhort their employees to more aggressive profit-seeking.
How to Make a Killing reveals dialysis as a microcosm of American medicine and poses a vital challenge: find a way to fix dialysis, and we'll have a fighting chance of fixing our country's dysfunctional healthcare system as a whole, restoring patients, not profits, as its true purpose.
Tom Mueller
Tom Mueller is a New York Times bestselling author whose previous books include Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud and Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, and the Atlantic Monthly. He divides his time between the Pacific Northwest and Italy.
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