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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 corporations, ambitious doctor-entrepreneurs, and Beltway lobbyists soon turned this medical miracle into an early experiment in for-profit medicine--and one of the nation's worst healthcare catastrophes. With powerful insight and on-the-ground reporting, Tom Mueller introduces an unforgettable cast of characters. Heroic patients risk their lives to blow the whistle on how they've been mistreated. An unpaid activist living in a south Georgia trailer park fights to save patients from involuntary discharge from their lifesaving care. Industry insiders put their careers on the line to speak out about the endemic wrongs and pervasive inequality they've witnessed--and about dialysis executives who dress as musketeers and Star Wars characters to exhort their employees to more aggressive profit-seeking. How to Make a Killing reveals dialysis as a microcosm of American medicine and poses a vital challenge: find a way to fix dialysis, and we'll have a fighting chance of fixing our country's dysfunctional healthcare system as a whole, restoring patients, not profits, as its true purpose.

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"Tom Mueller's writing has appeared in the New Yorker, National Geographic, the New York Times Magazine, and the Atlantic. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling Extra Virginity about food fraud, and Crisis of Conscience on whistleblowers and their enemies. ""A sparkle of youth within the glow of maturity."" The name of Melissa Kay Benson's game is strength and persistence in everything she does. She started acting on stage, in kindergarten, and has never stopped. Narrating audiobooks allows her to flex that acting muscle every day. She particularly loves the tension of a thriller, the intimacy of a memoir, and the educational aspect of nonfiction narration. Melissa's educational background in medical massage therapy and intensive anatomical studies, including the performance of human dissections, lends itself well to medical narration with anatomical and biological terminology. Melissa is a mature woman with a youthful voice. She is versatile with accents and dialects, and she has trained with the best of the best of narration coaches. Finally, Melissa is a passionate Masters CrossFit athlete. Nothing builds mental fortitude like tough physical training. She will go the distance with you. She applies her skills and dedication to her audiobook projects with 100% intensity!"

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