How to Make a Killing
€ 26,90
Informação do Produto
| ISBN | 9781800818422 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Tom Mueller |
| Editora | Profile Books Ltd |
| Formato | Capa dura |
| Número de páginas | 288 |
| Peso (kg) | 0,488 |
| Data de Publicação | 01/08/2023 |
| Preço (iva excl.) | € 25,38 |
| Imposto | € 1,52 |
| Preço (iva inc.) | € 26,90 |
| Disponibilidade | 3 unidades em armazém externo |
Descrição do Produto
''A terrifying story of profit before patients, and a chilling glimpse of what can happen when private companies are allowed to take charge of healthcare.'' Gavin FrancisSix decades ago, researchers achieved the impossible: developing a treatment that transformed kidney failure from a death sentence to a manageable condition. Yet, in the hands of a predatory medical industry, this triumph led to skyrocketing costs and worsening care.A gripping account of privatised healthcare gone wrong, How to Make a Killing recounts how the optimism of the 1950s and 1960s - when transplants and dialysis machines offered hope - gave way to anguished debates about the ethics of rationing and profiting from life-saving care, and how Big Dialysis proliferated at the expense of its patients.A triumph of investigative research, Tom Mueller''s book features an unforgettable cast of characters: CEOs who dress as musketeers to exhort more aggressive profit-seeking, nephrologist insiders who reveal the substandard care this causes, and heroic patients who risk their lives to reveal the truth.