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

Tom Mueller

Short-listed as a finalist for the 2024 New York Public Library's Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism 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 t...

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What Now? with Trevor Noah

The host highlighted the book as an investigative expose of the dialysis industry, describing how it uncovered layers of corruption and profiteering that harmed patients. He noted that the findings were increasingly relevant to everyday discussions about healthcare and whistleblowers, and conveyed strong approval of its insights.

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Episode: The Most Dangerous Part of America’s Healthcare Sy...

The book was an investigation of the dialysis industry, detailing how corruption and profiteering led to poor patient outcomes, with one speaker noting it exposed many layers of a seemingly light topic.

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Tom Mueller is the author of How to Make a Killing, an investigation of the dialysis industry.

when you're writing about the corruption in the olive oil industry, which seems like such a light topic. You know, so when I saw that I was like, huh, corruption in olive oil? Well, this is like a cute world to be in, you know, but you expose so many of the layers.

And then your next book you talk about whistleblowers and the role they play in society and how we don't protect them enough and what they've done to expose what we're experiencing.

And man, I feel like your latest book, I hate to say it, is more and more applicable every single day.

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