[eBook] [PDF] For How to Make a Killing 1st Edition By Tom Mueller
Short-listed as a finalist for the 2024 New York Public Library’s Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism
How did a lifesaving medical breakthrough become a for-profit enterprise that threatens many of the people it’s meant to save?
Six decades ago, visionary doctors achieved the impossible: the humble kidney, acknowledged since ancient times to be as essential to life as the heart, became the first human organ to be successfully replaced with a machine. Yet huge dialysis corporations, ambitious doctor-entrepreneurs and Beltway lobbyists soon turned this medical miracle into an early experiment in for-profit medicine―and one of the nation’s worst healthcare catastrophes.
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