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How to Make a Killing : Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine.
・ISBN 978-0-393-86651-3 hard US$ 30.00
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| 著者・編者 | Mueller, Tom, |
|---|---|
| 出版社 | (Norton, US) |
| 出版年月 | 2023.05 |
| ページ数 | 288 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜693-431＞ |
解説
Six decades ago, researchers achieved the impossible: a treatment that made kidney failure a manageable condition instead of a death sentence. And yet, in the hands of a predatory medical industry, this triumph led to skyrocketing costs and worsening care.
A gripping microcosm of American health care gone wrong, How to Make a Killing recounts how the optimism of the 1950s and 1960s-when transplants and early dialysis machines offered hope-gave way to anguished debates about the ethics of rationing (and profiting from) life-saving care. After Congress made renal disease the only "Medicare for All" condition, Big Dialysis proliferated, and the Hippocratic oath gave way to the profit motive.
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.