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How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine

By Tom Mueller
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By Tom Mueller
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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 corporati...

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