HOW TO MAKE A KILLING

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